Unmute videos The 56-year-old former beauty queen hadn’t watched the video of Cheslie Kryst, her second oldest of six children, in 10 years. Her eyes were trained on every moment. That twirling ...

By the Time You Read This: The Space Between Cheslie’s Smile ... Award nominations. In a video shared with Extra, which was recorded shortly before her death, Kryst announced that she had ...

Two years after Kryst's death by suicide, April Simpkins has completed her memoir, "By the Time You Read This: The Space Between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness." Cheslie Kryst’s mother is fu ...

April Simpkins, left, is opening up about her journey toward healing after the death of her daughter, Miss USA 2019, Cheslie Kryst. (Courtesy of April Simpkins) ...

Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. The mother of beloved former Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst is sharing her late daughter's powerful story and the reality of living with mental illness ...

A beauty queen, an attorney, a TV star whose suicide was a reminder of a troubling uptick in mental health struggles among women and in the Black community. Credit...Paras Griffin/Getty Images ...

Enter video producer Jim Pitulski of Face 4 Radio productions. Pitulski utilized images of Cheslie Kryst alongside performance clips of John Vento and a poignant performance by Karen Hoteck to ...

Like many mothers and daughters, Cheslie Kryst and April Simpkins were extremely close, talking every day. But, one day in 2022, Simpkins picked up the phone to call her daughter after teaching a ...