Jeannie Mae Millar (1974 - 2008)

On May 29, 2008, Jeannie Millar committed suicide in Los Angeles, California. During the last couple of years, Jeannie scaled back her acting career, married her third husband, and became a mother to Hannah - a cute baby with Downs Syndrome. Then two months later, Jeannie ended her life. Jeannie did not OD on drugs or prescription meds, but it wasn't accidental either. After autopsy, the Los Angeles Coroner classified her death as "Suicide by Hanging."

Jeannie grew up in a dysfunctional family, and she never knew her real mother, who died when Jeannie was an infant. She dropped out of Clark High School, and got caught up in the fast lane lifestyle of Las Vegas, Nevada, with all its vices. Throughout her life, there were times when Jeannie suffered from severe depression, suicidal thoughts, and substance abuse. In her youth, she had two broken marriages that lasted one month apiece. Yet, when Jeannie was happy, she radiated with friendliness to those around her.

Eventually, Jeannie headed to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actress and model. Although Jeannie achieved some success and film credits, her career was stagnant in recent years. Occasionally, Jeannie booked Background roles, but she was flustered that producers offered her just sleazy parts in their films. 

Initially, Jeannie used her physical beauty and sensuality to seek recognition, but she realized later that it typecast her, and limited future opportunities. Jeannie wasn't the first Hollywood actress to use her sexuality to promote herself, and then protest that she wanted to be considered a 'serious' actress! After her baby, post-partum psychosis may have combined with pre-existing personal issues to cause Jeannie to commit an irrational act. We speculate that Jeannie was stunned that her first child was born with a mental deficiency, too. Concurrently, Jeannie was troubled and upset by the recent death of Charles Millar, her father, with whom she maintained a tumultuous love-hate relationship during their lives. (Jeannie's dad was a Vietnam-era veteran, and Jeannie's mom was his Thailand girlfriend.)

On May 26th, 2008, she was admitted to Brotman Medical Center Psychiatric Ward in Culver City, California, on a three-day suicide watch. On May 29th, Jeannie was released, returned home, spent 3.5 hours there, kissed her baby, took the family car, and traveled to the Ramada Inn on Sepulveda Boulevard.

In Room 306, Jeannie wrote two suicide notes, and sent a text message to family and friends. "I'M DEAD!" were her blunt, final words. Then Jeannie hung herself from the bathroom door. When police were notified, they did a location fix on her cell phone, rushed to the hotel room, forced entry through a window, and cut her down. The Fire Department Paramedics declared her dead at the scene. Jonathan Pruett, her third husband of just ten months, chose to cremate her body, and he withdrew to Minnesota to live with his parents there.

Jeannie was a beautiful female with flawless Eurasian features. She dazzled men with her beauty, and sweet, friendly personality. Her friends are saddened, shocked, and puzzled by her behavior in the end.

Quoting Alan, a very close friend, "What was going through your precious heart and brain that was so awful that you had to commit suicide? AND, in such a horrible way?" We don't fully comprehend an answer to that question.


 

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