'I think the plan was already in motion even as far back as then.' 'She kept watching it and watching it over and over,' she said. And while she says they were both shocked and saddened, Kate seemed unable to tear herself away from the footage. She described how they were together at a hotel in Santa Fe when news broke of his death. 'A very tragic and sad ending to the life of a very colorful and delightful being.' 'Unfortunately, untreated, it finally took its toll on her,' she told.
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The heartbroken sister said Kate would self-medicate her suspected bipolar disorder with alcohol, because she was too scared to seek professional help in case it damaged the brand. 'I felt all the stress/pressure of her brand (KS) may have flipped the switch where she eventually became full-on manic depressive.' 'She was always a very excitable little girl,' she said adding that 'this was not unexpected by me'. Saffo told The Kansas City Star she'd noticed worrying signs of mental illness even when Kate was young - but the pressure of running her own brand meant her sister began to crack. Saffo said the 55-year-old never anticipated how successful her brand would become - and how she, with it, would become a household name: 'She never expected it - nor was she properly prepared for it.' 'Just dear - but she was surrounded by YES people, for far too long, therefore she did not receive the proper care for what I believed to be (and tried numerous times to get her help for) bipolar disorder.
'My little sister Katy was a precious, precious little person,' Saffo told. Her older sister Reta Saffo said Kate struggled to cope with her celebrity status, which only made her suspected bipolar disorder worse. Kate's suicide was 'not unexpected' according to her family who say she struggled for years with bipolar disorder - but was too scared to seek help in case it hurt her brand. Kate's sister said that the designer had been battling mental illness throughout her life, but it wasn't until comedian Robin Williams killed himself in August 2014 that she began to realize Kate's obsession with suicide and her unraveling mental health. Ask Daddy!'Īndy was seen with the couple's only child on Tuesday at the girl's school, with a source telling that he arrived with a police officer to get his daughter and tell her the news. The designer left behind a heartbreaking suicide note to her daughter Frances Beatrix, 13, which read: 'Bea - I have always loved you. He was in the apartment however when Kate, 55, hanged herself with a scarf in her Park Avenue home in Manhattan on Tuesday morning. TMZ reports that the couple were living separate lives, and that Andy had moved into a separate apartment after 24 years of marriage. Kate Spade fell into a deep depression days before she committed suicide because her husband Andy wanted a divorce. She sold her company in 2006 to raise her daughter, before launching Frances Valentine in 2015īy Chris Spargo and Hannah Parry For and Nic White For Mailonline.Spade shot to fame when her line of purses became the 'It' bag for women in the late 90s and early aughts.
Kate Spade was found dead at the age of 55 in her Park Avenue apartment on Tuesday.Kate Spade killed herself 'after her husband demanded a divorce and moved out' as her sister says she suffered from manic depression for years and was obsessed with Robin Williams' suicide