24 April 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\nJimmie Allen considered suicide after he was accused of sexual assault.<\/p>\n
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Jimmie Allen considered suicide<\/p>\n
\nThe ‘Freedom Was a Highway’ singer’s former manager sued him in May 2023 but dropped her legal action last month, and now the 38-year-old country star has told how he felt as through “the world had just collapsed” as a result of the allegations and he considered taking his own life as a way of helping his family financially via his life insurance.<\/p>\n
\nSpeaking to Kathie Lee Gifford in a video shared to YouTube, Jimmie said about being dropped by his record label and losing various business deals: \u201cThe first thing my brain goes to is not the career. It\u2019s, how am I going to provide for my kids? I had three [kids] then.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI\u2019m thinking to myself, how am I going to provide for my family? And then it hit me. My life insurance covered suicide.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI don\u2019t feel that way now, but in that moment, when you feel like you have nothing\u2026 In the midst of a society where it\u2019s no longer innocent until proven guilty\u2026 She said this so it must be true.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nJimmie got as far as putting bullets in his gun clip while feeling “heartbroken” about the lawsuit, but as he put the last one in, he received a message from his friend Chuck Adams, which was “freaky” because he didn’t usually receive alerts for texts.<\/p>\n
\nJimmie recalled: “He said, \u2018Ending it isn\u2019t the answer.\u2019 And when I read those words that he texted me, I read them again. I just stopped.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI remember I called one of my buddies that lived in lower Delaware. He came up. I gave him my gun. I said, \u2018Take it. I don\u2019t need it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe ‘Make Me Want To’ singer – who has Aadyn, nine, from a previous relationship, Naomi, four, Zara, two, and Cohen, six months, with wife Alexis, and twins Amari and Aria, who were born to a friend named Danielle last summer – was “able to get through” the “rough” day but spent some time feeling low.<\/p>\n
\nHe recalled: \u201cEvery single day I remember battling, \u2018Do I want to live? Do I not want to live?\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Man, my family would have X amount of dollars if I would\u2019ve [taken] care of something. But I realised that\u2019s not the way to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nJimmie briefly turned to drugs but is now sober and “in a great place”, having eventually gone to a retreat and beginning therapy.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: \u201cI am healing and growing for me and my children.”<\/p>\n
\nThe singer has denied the allegations against him and in the new interview said he and his manager had been “hooking up” and he was left “confused and heartbroken\u201d when she filed her lawsuit.<\/p>\n
\nIt was revealed last month that Jimmie’s former manager had entered a settlement agreement with him to “avoid the trauma of reliving her abuse over the course of a painful trial.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe alleged victim’s lawyer, Elizabeth Fegan, said in a statement: “The lawsuit against Allen was never about financial gain for my client, but instead holding Allen accountable.<\/p>\n
\n“Unfortunately, civil litigation has few ways to punish wrongdoers; we could not ask the court to jail him, for example, or force him to change his behaviour. One of the few remedies we do have in civil litigation is to ask the court to punish through monetary damages, which we did.<\/p>\n
\n“While Allen and my client reached an agreement prior to trial, the motivations remained true \u2014 to hold Allen accountable, which we succeeded in doing.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMy client stands by her statements in the complaint, that Allen raped her while she was incapacitated and sexually abused her while she was his day-to-day manger.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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