Iyanla Vanzant is all about teaching people to “rebuild, restructure and redefine” their lives. The 62-year-old spiritual advisor learned this lesson over 40 years ago. She was 21 years old at the time and had just given birth to her third child. Still suffering from post-partum depression, the young mother decided to end her life. “I took a bunch of pills. I was in the kitchen, on the floor, and I could feel myself losing consciousness,” Vanzant says in a clip from OWN’s upcoming seven-night series, “Belief.”… “In that moment, I saw what I believe to be the Divine Mother. She said to me, ‘Do you really want to die?’ And I said, ‘No. I just don’t want to hurt anymore.’”… She was admitted into a psychiatric hospital where she was treated for depression. There, she learned to sort through her thoughts and emotions in a healthy way. [ MadameNoire ] “Be Wrong Stron”: Don Cheadle Kills It As Miles Davis In First Clip From Miles Ahead Last year, Don Cheadle launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to create a biopic covering Miles Davis’s storied life and career. Thankfully, the House of Lies star was successful, and his team started filming last July with Cheadle in front, as well as behind the camera as the director. Fast forward more than a year later and the finished product, Miles Ahead, will make its debut this weekend at the New York Film Festival. And while there’s no official release date for Miles Ahead in theaters as of yet, the buzz surrounding the film is massive… A clip from Miles Ahead has been released in preparation for Sunday’s festival premiere. In it, Davis can be seen making magic in the studio, telling the musicians if they’re going to mess up, “be wrong strong” before taking over on the trumpet. [ MadameNoire ] John Ridley Bringing Rodney King & L.A. Riots To The Big Screen It has been approximately 23 years since the L.A. Riots gripped the entire nation in the wake of four police officers getting off scot-free for the brutal–and videotaped–beating of Rodney King… Broad Green Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, famously owned by Hollywood giants Ron Howard and Brian Glazer, are joining forces to present the L.A. Riots in dramatized format to audiences and they have called for 12 Years a Slave Oscar winner John Ridley to man the director’s chair. Ridley, who currently oversees his successful ABC creation, American Crime, last directed in 2013 for Andre 3000 in the Jimi Hendrix biopic, All Is by My Side and the still untitled film’s financiers couldn’t be any more thrilled to have him onboard. [ HipHopWired ] Here’s A First Look At Draya Michele’s Mint Swim ‘Casino’ Collection [ VibeVixen ] Justin Bieber Banned for Pushing Jesus in Middle East [ TMZ ] Delicate Watercolors Combat Oversimplified ‘Strong Black Woman’ Stereotype [ HuffingtonPost ] Brad Pitt’s Withdrawal Symptoms From Quitting Smoking Made Him ‘Ready To Kill’ [ StarPulse ]
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What Iyanla Vanzant Learned From Her Suicide Attempt
