Heartbroken mother of Daisy Coleman reveals the 23-year-old killed herself after finding out she couldn’t have children – and infertility may have been caused by the teen rape ordeal she spoke about in Netflix’s Audrie & Daisy documentary
- Daisy Coleman, 23, died by suicide on August 4
- Her mother Melinda revealed she had recently learned she could not conceive
- It was likely caused by her rape ordeal as a teenager, she claims
- Hours before her death, Daisy also filed a police report about a stalker
- She had opened up about her experience of rape and victim shaming in the 2016 Netflix documentary Audrie & Daisy
The heartbroken mother of Daisy Coleman revealed that her daughter killed herself shortly after learning she couldn’t have children and that it was likely she couldn’t conceive because of the rape she suffered as a teenager.
Coleman, who opened up about her teen rape ordeal in the 2016 Netflix documentary Audrie & Daisy, died on August 4 after shooting herself on FaceTime with her on/off boyfriend.
Her mother Melinda told The Sun that the 23-year-old had been told by doctors that just weeks before her death that she would never be able to conceive.
She also claims her daughter had a stalker who had been harrassing her by text since December and who she had filed a police report about just hours before she died.
Melinda Coleman revealed that her daughter Daisy, pictured together above, killed herself shortly after learning she couldn’t have children and that her infertility was likely caused by the rape she suffered as a teenager and spoke about in Netflix documentary Audrie & Daisy
Daisy Coleman, 23, died on August 4 after shooting herself on FaceTime with her on/off boyfriend. She had spoken about her teen rape ordeal in Netflix documentary Audrie & Daisy
Coleman’s mother Melinda, pictured left, revealed she died just weeks after learning she couldn’t have children and hours after reporting a stalker. Daisy Coleman is pictured, right
‘It was two weeks ago, it feels like it’s been a really long time, and like it’s been no time at all, if that makes sense,’ Melinda told The Sun.
‘She was my best friend, and she would say the same, we talked every day. We were really close.
‘I really thought we were past this [her feeling suicidal], in my heart, but then she got hit with a lot of stuff recently.
‘She just found out weeks before that she couldn’t have children. She was very upset about that.’
Melinda revealed that Daisy had also been struggling to cope with the deaths of her dad and brother.
Tragedy struck the family last year when Coleman’s younger brother died in a car accident. She was raped a few years after her father Dr Michael Coleman was killed in a car crash.
Coleman appeared in Netflix documentary Audrie & Daisy and spoke about how she was plied with alcohol in 2012 and raped in a Missouri house at the age of 14 but no one was ever convicted.
After the Netflix documentary aired she said she found it hard to listen to then Nodaway County Sheriff Darren White’s clear belief that Daisy and her friend Paige – who was raped on the same night – were somehow as culpable as the boys. He also slipped a note to the camera that ‘teenage girls lie.’
Daisy, pictured, had also been struggling to cope with the deaths of her dad and brother, her mother revealed. Her younger brother died in a car accident just last year
Daisy Coleman had tried to take her own life numerous times since the ordeal in 2012
Coleman had tried to kill herself at least four times in the past.
She suffered victim blaming from the community. T-shirts worn by people in her dance class read: ‘ ‘Matt 1: Daisy 0.’
Social media exploded with hateful hashtags, branding Daisy a ‘skank’ a ‘whore’ and a ‘liar.’
Coleman ended up self-harming and carved the name of the alleged rapist into her skin.
They had moved to Maryville, Missouri from Albany, Missouri, some 40 miles away, in 2009 hoping to make new and better memories.
In 2013 their house was burned down in a fire that her mother Melinda believes was deliberate.