Nationwide — Keith Lee, a popular food critic with 16.8 million followers on TikTok, recently opened up about a dark chapter in his life. He shared how he once nearly took his own life during a heated argument with his father, who then saved him.
“Me and my dad got into it real bad. He told me that I could not go somewhere, and I said, ‘F-ck you! Who is telling me I can’t go somewhere?'”
The argument escalated when his father told him that if he couldn’t stay at the family home unless he followed some rules. In response, Lee became so upset that he tried to hang himself in the family’s backyard.
However, his father stopped him and told him how much he loved him. He said, “He came, picked me up, took me off them ties and told me how much he loved me, and that’s why I’m here today. I would’ve been gone… I understood now, like he does love you. He grew up without his father. He was just doing the best that he could do with what he had.”
Lee, who is also a former MMA fighter, also reflected on the impact of his father’s love, which helped him see their relationship in a new light.