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Camera IconEllie Gonsalves as a child, pictured with her father Rick. Credit: Instagram, @ellie_gonsalves<\/p>\nAustralian actress and model Ellie Gonsalves has opened up about her father\u2019s tragic death when she was just 24 years old.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Life Uncut podcast hosted by former Bachelorette stars Laura Byrne and Brittany Hockley, Gonsalves detailed the last conversation she had with her father Rick before he took his own life.<\/p>\n
Gonsalves, now 35, was living in Los Angeles in April 2015 when she received a gut-wrenching call from her father who informed her of a marriage breakdown between himself and Gonsalves\u2019 mother.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me that they were getting divorced and separating,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She said after the phone call with her dad \u2014 who was just 50 years old \u2014 she went to bed, but just hours later she woke to a very distressing situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had like 16 or 20 missed calls from my sister. . . I\u2019m panicking, trying to get on the phone to her, and she gets on the phone, and she\u2019s hysterical, and she just goes, \u2018Dad (has taken his own life)\u2019,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI start screaming.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know why he did it, he just felt like he didn\u2019t have an out. . .I don\u2019t agree with any of that,\u201d she said on the podcast.<\/p>\n
Camera IconEllie Gonsalves as a child, pictured with her father Rick. Credit: Instagram, @ellie_gonsalves<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish my dad stayed. I wish we could have made him feel like it was worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gonsalves also revealed she cut her mother and siblings out of her life following the tragedy.<\/p>\n
Listeners flooded Life Uncut\u2019s Instagram post of Gonsalves\u2019 interview, praising the model\u2019s resilience and strength in the wake of losing her dad.<\/p>\n
\u201c10 years later from the first time I heard this story from Ellie.. til now\u2026 I cry .. EVERY TIME,\u201d fitness influencer Kayla Itsines said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe love you \u2764\ufe0f thank you for sharing the deepest parts of your story with us xx,\u201d Brittany Hockley said.<\/p>\n
Lifeline: 13 11 14.<\/p>\n
If you or someone you know needs help, phone SANE Australia Helpline on 1800 18 SANE (7263).<\/p>\n
Young people seeking support can phone beyondblue on 1300 22 4636 or go to headspace.org.au.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian actress and model Ellie Gonsalves has opened up about her father\u2019s tragic death when she was just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,44],"class_list":["post-707933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}