On TikTok, burn survivor Alecia King makes hilarious videos and appears to be bubbly and full of life, but she has admitted that there are days when she feels extremely depressed. Even though she brings smiles to her many viewers, and was recently allowed to formally graduate high school, the 18-year-old has been finding it difficult to joy. "There are times when I break down to the point where I get suicidal thoughts.
Mommy [her guardian Julian Mendez] has been a rock in my life and I live in a yard where I have friends, so they keep me going. Them make mi laugh and always a give me joke but there are times when I am very unhappy," she said. One of her worries is that she does not have a job.
"My friends that I used to go school with are working and their skin look so beautiful. Dem nuh spoil up suh and dem can continue with dem education. Mi just deh home and deh pon a big pause.
I want go work and get a next chance at life. Dem little summen deh bring mi down, mi nah tell nuh lie," she said. King was doused with gasolene and set ablaze as she slept in Redwood, St Catherine, last August.
She miraculously survived and received treatment at Shriner's Hospital in Texas. Her ex-boyfriend, Antwone Grey, has been charged for the crime. But in addition to the memories of her horrific experience, King said she is being bullied by online trolls who taunt her about her skin.
"Yuh [expletive] finger look like when chicken foot drop inna hot water," read one of the texts. "Sometimes I .