14 DAY TRIAL // Gia Allemand’s mother, Donna Micheletti, sat down for an interview with Dr. Phil, which marks the first time she speaks out on Gia’s death by suicide in August this year.
Below is an excerpt from the interview, which aired on the season premiere last night. It’s the segment in which Ms. Micheletti explains why she thinks her daughter killed herself.
Gia, a former model who had appeared on The Bachelor and was a fan-favorite, hung herself in her apartment after a minor fight with her live-in boyfriend, Ryan Anderson.
Reports even claimed that he had told her that he didn’t love her anymore, which is why she tried to kill herself. She died two days later in the hospital, from complications stemming from the suicide attempt.
However, Ms. Micheletti aims to prove such speculation false by telling Dr. Phil that Gia would often get depressed when she was PMS-ing.
This is also what happened on that tragic day, when she decided to hang herself while on the phone with her mother.
“At that point, with how she felt with her menstrual cycle, she could not see clearly,” Ms. Micheletti says. She had understood the seriousness of the situation and was trying to get Gia to realize that what she was feeling at that moment wasn’t real.
So, while Gia thought Ryan didn’t love her anymore, that was just her imagination, her mother says.
“It was like night and day. It would come out of nowhere. All of a sudden, something would click in there and she would say ‘This isn't right. He doesn't love me’,” she explains.
But he did love her, Ms. Micheletti continues. Gia was just in the habit of projecting on Ryan feelings she attributed to her father.
In the same interview, Ms. Micheletti breaks down in tears at the memory of hearing her daughter’s last breath over the phone, which she put down to hang herself.