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He then called and she was hospitalized. After regaining consciousness and receiving treatment, Tamar was later transferred to a mental health facility. In the same interview on The Tamron Hall Show , Tamar revealed that she had actually contemplated suicide long before she acted on it.

Towanda continued, "I think that now it's making all of us—not just with the Tamar situation—but all of us as a whole to pay attention to our strong friends, to make sure we check up on them and make sure they're okay. Because although they're walking around with a smile on their face doesn't mean that they have it all together. Prior to last week's interview, Tamar had previously opened up about the suicide attempt and her mental health struggles on social media.

In one particular post , Tamar described feeling "betrayed, taken advantage of, overworked, and underpaid" as a reality star.

However, as she captioned the Instagram post in July, "I wrote a letter over 2 months ago asking to be freed from what I believed was excessive and unfair. We wish her nothing but the best. Tamar shared more of her feelings on Tamron Hall last week, her first time speaking out publicly since attempting to take her own life.

She told the daytime host, "I'm still having a hard time trying to figure out, what's the premise [of airing this season of Braxton Family Values ]? Is this to inspire, to help people with mental illness, to help Tamar with her new normal, with depression and anxiety? Now, the family is defending their decision to continue with the series, promising season 7 does not exploit their sister. However, we can talk about how it affected us as a family and individually when we found out about it.

How did we react? Those are real feelings, and I think that real families can respect the fact that we're going to touch on it, but we're not gonna tell her story. At the end of the day, the sisters say it would be impossible to do the show without acknowledging what happened with Tamar. I'm in this moment of depression, I'm having these mental health issues and I feel like I can't speak out, and if this family can go through this situation and get through this situation, maybe I can too," Trina says.

Because we've had our own counseling, we've had our own situations throughout the show, but as long as we can help somebody, there's a reason to continue on to do the show. The season premiere opens with a flash-forward to the family learning of Tamar's suicide attempt, each member speaking directly to camera, almost as if they're speaking to Tamar, but Towanda says that wasn't their intention. Trina and Towanda say there's nothing that could break their sisterly bond with Tamar, but note that their relationship will have its peaks and valleys.

On Tamron Hall , Tamar acknowledged that the family needed to work on forgiveness "on both sides" to move forward from everything that transpired in , and even the years before. And, now we're at the point where, it's assaults and threats, and this is not the show that I created. I created the Braxton Family Values because I wanted to be an example, part of the Black community with five Black amazing sisters, all different walks of life, who can inspire and help, and people can learn from our experiences along the way.

We wasn't teaching anything but being devilish, and I didn't want to do that. We're just respecting where she is mentally and emotionally, and if she felt that's what she needed to do to get it off her, because sometimes you have to get it out, then that's what she had to do.

The sisters repeatedly drive home that Tamar's truth is not their truth, with Towanda saying, "We have a right to speak our truth, as well, and that's our truth and how we experienced it and what we went through, and emotionally how we felt when we found out about it. To my amazing, beautiful, handsome, smart, and talented kids Mommie loves you so much. Continue to make me proud, waking your own journey. So beautiful. They are growing so fast!