10 Female celebrities who committed suicide

9. Laurie Bird

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Laurie Bird was an American actress and photographer. In 1979, she committed suicide by taking an overdose of Valium in the apartment she shared with Garfunkel in New York. At Bird’s funeral, her father revealed that her mother’s death, which was thought to be from ovarian cancer, was also a suicide. Garfunkel referred to his relationship to Bird in the liner notes of his 1988 album Lefty. She was briefly featured in the 2006 documentary film Wanderlust.