MARIEL HEMINGWAY’S SHOCKING SUICIDE BOMBSHELL – AND A HEARTFELT TRIBUTE TO HER LATE GRANDPA!

In a shocking disclosure, MARIEL HEMINGWAY says she once “did consider suicide” after having “suffered from depression!”

Having turned 50 in November, the beautiful actress and mom from Idaho has found the courage to confront head-on the horrors of suicide, which incredibly took the lives of seven of her family members, including her actress/model sister Margaux and their famous grandfather, the legendary writer Ernest Hemingway.

Mariel – whose films ranged from her Academy Award-nominated role as Woody Allen’s teenage lover Tracy in “Manhattan” to her vivid portrayal as murdered Playboy model Dorothy Stratten in “Star 80” – disclosed to USA Weekend that taking her own life was once a consideration when she was at her lowest.

But she’s been a strong advocate for the prevention of suicide for many years now and has made a film titled “Archie’s Final Project” about teen suicide because, “Mental health and health and wellness are huge issues in my life,” adding the movie “speaks to the heart about kids’ unspoken fears.”

And from her past marriage to Stephen Crisman, she’s gone past those fears to raise two outstanding and gorgeous daughters – Dree, who has become a world-class fashion model and Langley, who is an artist and actress.

Mariel has also been embracing the Hemingway past and has taken a journey to rediscover her grandpa, who killed himself in 1961 just a few months before she was born.
While she’s presently working to turn his Paris memoir "A Moveable Feast” into a film, something she’s just accomplished is helping to bring out a new book that has turned into a “must get” for any fans of the man, writer and legend!

Beautifully published this month by Firefly Books Ltd. of Canada, “Hemingway: A Life in Pictures”($29.95, paperback) contains more than 350 carefully selected pictures, many never before seen!

It was Mariel who worked hard to compile the book with acclaimed literature and culture professor Boris Vejdovsky.

Mariel traveled to her grandfather’s official archives at the JFK Library in Boston and painstakingly unearthed some fascinating images from her family’s albums that take the reader behind the Hemingway mystique for this blockbuster new book.

Readers will see a 5-year-old Ernest sporting a fishing creel almost as big as he is – and in another photo, there he is at age 7 with a toy gun --  precursor to the real gun his father gave him for his tenth birthday!

Amazing pics highlight the rest of his life – from the safaris in Africa to the bullfights in Spain to quiet moments at his finca in Cuba (even skinny dipping!) to his final years in Ketchum, Idaho.

And in a bonus feature for Hemingway fans, Mariel pens her first-ever tribute to her grandfather in the book, writing in part: “I understand his appreciation for the best of the best, whether it was the best fly-fishing stream, the best Bordeaux…my grandfather knew what was great. He wanted to experience it, taste it, feel it and stand in the face of anything that stretched him beyond the limits of his own comfort.”

Mariel, too, once lived outside her own comfort zone. But with her work as an advocate for the prevention of suicide, she’s now a huge inspiration to many – and she also showed in this new book that she can turn a phrase just as well as her grandfather – “Papa”  Hemingway!