15 Celebrities Who Tried And Failed To Take Their Own Lives

12. Sammy Davis, Jr.

During the 1950’s, Davis was having a relationship with Kim Novak. He was black and she was white, and interracial dating as well as marriage was publicly frowned upon, such that movie and television studios felt the pressure to dissolve their relationship. After a hastily arranged marriage to a black woman, Davis had a gun to his head and had to be tackled to stop him from pulling the trigger.