Aimee Mayo Emotionally Revisits 1990 Suicide Attempt in Memoir: 'I'm Just Grateful to Be Alive'
Aimee Mayo.Photo: KRISTIN BARLOWE It was Christmas Eve of 1979, andAimee Mayo’s father had just put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. As news spread and chaos ensued in the home she shared with her grandparents, a terrified little girl was quickly hustled into her uncle’s bedroom in the hopes that she might be sheltered from the pain happening right outside the door. To keep her busy, the then 8-year-old’s grandmother haphazardly grabbed a Christmas present and threw it on the bed before she slammed the door in obvious distress....