Danny Gokey’s Testimony Stopped a Suicide Attempt
By Movieguide® Contributor
Through miraculous circumstances, AMERICAN IDOL alum Danny Gokey helped save the life of a person he never even knew existed.
“Someone who met me at my concert said, ‘I had my gun out that day. My fiancé committed suicide months earlier, and I just couldn’t live anymore,’ Gokey explained on the “GET REAL with Caroline Hobby” podcast on Monday.
“The TV’s on in a different room. She’s in a different [room] with a gun getting ready to commit suicide, and she hears a man crying on the TV,” he continued. “They were telling my story and had asked me questions about it.”
It piqued her curiosity enough for her to put the gun aside and listen to Gokey share the story of how he went on AMERICAN IDOL after his wife tragically died.
“She said from that point, ‘If he can make it, I can make it,’” Gokey shared in amazement.
An advocate for life at all stages, Gokey frequently encourages those who feel depressed or suicidal.
He previously said on social media:
Someone needs to hear this:
Suicide is NEVER the answer. It places a period where there only should be a comma.
It ends a story instead of starting a new chapter.
Never give into the lie that things will never change and always let God have the final say in your life.
He knows from his own experience that hope can pull anyone through the worst of circumstances.
“Hope is that rope…,” Gokey said in an interview with PassionLife. “So you’ll hang onto to that with all your life, and it’ll pull you from the darkness to the light. And we need that, like that verse David said, ‘Why are you so downcast, oh my soul, why are you [in] so, so much in turmoil within? Put your hope in God, for I yet praise him.”
“He’s looking forward to God’s deliverance, and he is looking forward to the moment that he’s gonna give God praise, and I like that. He commands himself because there’s a dark hole that you can go down to if you choose not to hang onto hope,” the “Haven’t Seen it Yet” singer said.
Movieguide® previously reported Gokey’s story:
Singer-songwriter Danny Gokey made a promise to his wife; that he would try out for AMERICAN IDOL. But after Gokey’s wife died unexpectedly during routine heart surgery in 2009, fulfilling that promise seemed like the last thing he wanted to do.
“They gave me a private room and I yelled out loud, ‘God, you have to save her! You have to heal her! You have to. You cannot leave me alone like this!’” Gokey said on an I Am Second video…
“I made a promise that I would go try out,” Danny said. “Little did I know that when I would try out for this show, it would be a month after she passed.”
Overwhelmed with grief, he felt reluctant to audition. But after some encouragement from a pastor friend, he gave it a try and launched a successful career as a Christian musician.
Gokey’s new album, “Sound of Heaven,” releases July 26.
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