Jay Glazer said he still has suicidal ideations and self-harms, and he put that message into a new video posted on World Suicide Prevention Day. He also said Rosie and Michael Phelps are part of the support system he leans on when the thoughts get worse.
Glazer, 56, wrote that years ago he made a decision to choose life and to make that same decision every day moving forward. He paired that with a direct reason for speaking now: he said he posted with the chance it can help on Thursday.
Rosie and Michael Phelps
Rosie is the first person Glazer said asked him, “What do you need from me?” He said he told her, “Just tell me you’re not going anywhere.” That exchange gives the video its practical center: this is not a vague appeal for help, but a specific script he says he uses when the episode starts.
Glazer also said he and Michael Phelps FaceTime each other when they are having difficult moments, and that Phelps does a similar thing when he is struggling. In the video, Glazer calls Phelps “my brother,” which makes the arrangement sound less like a celebrity callback and more like a standing check-in between two men who know the same mental terrain.
World Suicide Prevention Day
The timing matters because Glazer said he was hesitant to post after getting trashed with the worst comments the last time he shared similar material on X. This time, he said he was willing to take the insults if it helped anybody, and he tied that decision to World Suicide Prevention Day rather than to a publicity cycle.
He also laid out the contradiction plainly. In the same video, Glazer said he had suicidal ideations a lot, felt like people were better off without him, and still has those thoughts a lot. He added that he has bipolar meltdowns and self-harms to this day, while also saying he will not kill himself. That combination is the story: a public figure choosing to say the hard part out loud and naming the routine that keeps him in place.
Unbreakable and X
Glazer had already detailed a lifelong battle with depression in his 2022 memoir, Unbreakable, so the new post extends a public thread rather than starting one from scratch. The value for readers is in the mechanics he described here: say what you need, keep the line open, and let another person answer before the moment gets worse.
For anyone who heard the video and recognized the same pattern in themselves, the action item is simple even if the struggle is not: reach out to someone directly and keep the conversation alive. Glazer framed his own version of that through Rosie and Michael Phelps, and the post stands as a reminder that the first move can be as plain as asking, “What do you need from me?”
