'I swallowed a bottle of pills': OITNB star Laverne Cox
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The trans-actress - whose age is unknown - revealed that she attempted suicide at the tender age of 11 due to shame and school bullies.
'I learned in church that [being gay] was a sin,' Laverne said in the June 9 edition of Time.
'I just imagined that I was disappointing [my grandmother in heaven] and it just was devastating for me. So I went to the medicine cabinet and got a bottle of pills. And took them. And swallowed them. And went to sleep, hoping not to wake up. And I did wake up, with a really bad stomachache. I don't remember what the pills were. Whatever it was, I thought that they would kill me but they didn't.'
