David Spade Reflects on Sister-in-Law Kate Spade's Death: 'There's No Going Back'

David Spadeis still reeling from the loss of his sister-in-lawKate Spadeone year after her suicide.

In a new interview withThe New York Times, David, 55, opened up about with dealing with her death, saying he believed her suicide was an impulse decision.

“I feel like Katy wouldn’t have done it, five minutes later,” he said. “But these things happen and there’s no going back.”

Kate wasfound dead in her New York City apartmenton June 5, 2018. Her husband, Andy Spade, revealed on the day of her death that she wasin treatment for depression and anxiety.

“Katy was so funny,” David said of his sister-in-law. “I don’t know if agoraphobic is the word, but she didn’t like to mingle a lot; she’d have people at her house and she was always so funny.”

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Unfortunately, this wasn’t David’s first experience with suicide. According toThe New York Times, his stepfather took his own life when David was 15. He also had a few “close friends” die during his teens and early 20s.

“People just started going right and left, and I would sit and stare at a wall,” David recalled. “I just said, ‘OK, I guess I’ll cross my fingers that it doesn’t happen to everyone.’ And more people would go.”

On the one-year anniversary of Kate’s death, the designer’s original fashion brand, Kate Spade New York, announced it had completed a$1 million pledge to support suicide prevention and mental health organizations.

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text “home” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go tosuicidepreventionlifeline.org.

source: people.com