The 22-year-old granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy died Thursday at the fabled political family’s compound in Hyannisport, Mass., the family said in a statement.
Saoirse Kennedy Hill was the daughter of Courtney Kennedy Hill, the fifth of 11 children born to the late New York senator and wife Ethel, The New York Times reported. She attended Boston College, where she was a member of the class of 2020, the university confirmed to The Boston Globe.
Boston 25 News, citing a law enforcement source, reported that Hill died from a suspected drug overdose.
In a 2016 opinion piece for the Deerfield Scroll, the student newspaper for the Deerfield Academy boarding school, Hill wrote about her bouts with depression.
“My depression took root in the beginning of my middle school years and will be with me for the rest of my life,” she wrote. “Although I was mostly a happy child, I suffered bouts of deep sadness that felt like a heavy boulder on my chest. These bouts would come and go, but they did not outwardly affect me until I was a new sophomore at Deerfield.”
She added that “someone I knew and loved broke serious sexual boundaries with me,” leading her to pretend the incident hadn’t happened and attempting suicide.
She urged students and faculty to talk openly about mental illness in order to get rid of the stigma associated with depression.
“People talk about cancer freely; why is it so difficult to discuss the effects of depression, bipolar [sic], anxiety, or schizophrenic disorders?” Hill wrote. “Just because the illness may not be outwardly visible doesn’t mean the person suffering from it isn’t struggling.”
Commenters on Fox-
Donnottrump– So there’s still hope Ivanka, Donny jr and Eric can still have a tragic end like this!
TheGopRasCorruptasTrump -there isn’t a single republican family that has given as much for this country as the Kennedys..
you get the drift…
Sad, but no great loss – except to the democrat party.
I met rfk jr -he’s a beta asshole.
I’m not in love with the Kennedys and don’t make a secret of that. However, this really is a sad thing to happen, and I just can’t imagine being a parent faced with this news. Also, depression…it’s a scary thing that I wouldn’t want to play games with.
I think it also is a sad statement that people like Donottrump (above) are ok with saying the sort of thing as he/she does above. I disagree pretty strongly, even sometimes in an angry way with some others, but dehumanizing someone like that. I just can’t go along with it.
Just another day in Camelot.
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment
Oh good gawd. With a name like that she didn’t stand a chance. Oh, sure, her parents were druggies and all that, but there’s no excuse for giving your child a dumb ass ghetto name. May the peace of Christ be with her. I really hope she’s gone to a place where she’ll never have to see another Kennedy.
“someone I knew and loved broke serious sexual boundaries with me,”
So some Kennedy…whichever one is running or did run or whatever, had his niece, daughter, granddaughter, whatever, killed and covered it up with an apparent drug overdose.
Next case.
RIP. My condolences to family, they must be devastated.
I love how she addressed the stigma about the vast array of mental illness.
God needs to raise up someone in this world who will SHATTER that taboo of mental illness and inspire hope to those who suffer and take down the bigots in the process.
Who could that be? 🤔
Imagine all the things about the Kennedy family that we don’t know about. I don’t believe in curses but it looks like the family is cursed or something.
The Lemmings.
It’s a karma thing.
“there isn’t a single republican family that has given as much for this country as the Kennedys” No more than any soldier’s family who suffered the loss of their loved one giving his life for this country. Don’t cry for the Kennedys. I remember William Kennedy Smith, charged with rape in ’91 (surprise!) and at one point during the case lamenting that he was burdened with the Kennedy name. Really genius? He could have chosen to be known as William Smith but naaaa, he and family want that Kennedy name to give them the privilege the name gives. Sorry, I have little respect for the Kennedy clan. Lots of women were raped, killed, or taken advantaged of because they thought they could do no wrong. And don’t get me started on Ted’s immigration bill of ’65 which today is nearly destroying us.
At least they didn’t pull her body out of a submerged Oldsmobile.
So I’m confused: I thought that rich, white liberals lived on Estates. And that Compounds were the purview of Poor-White-Trash libertarians, gun nuts, home-schoolers, Sovereign Citizens, and Christian zealots. So what gives? Does the Hyannisport home of the Kennedy clan rate “compound” status because they’re a bunch of inbred, drug abusing Catholics?
Couldn’t make it to the NARCAN® cellar???
(I’m sure the Compound has one)
Not sure why this is news.
If this happened to the Bocephus family of Hog Waller, WVa, nobody’d hear about it.
Happens every day in Baltimore, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, SF, LA, KC, DC, Atlanta, and every other Demonrat Plantation in America – guess when it’s negroes nobody GAF.
izlamo delenda est …
RIP.
I don’t how to pronounce her name either and I like the Mary Jo comment. Who is the someone who was close?
I feel bad for the girls death but extremely entitled families with compounds are not FULLY immune to the results of Democrat pilocies.
I hate drug dealers. Do not show them mercy because they prey on people and spread pain increasingly.
When it comes to Fentanyl & carfentanil those who import, traffic and sell need death penalty.
It makes heroine look like candy.
Tragic indeed, sorry for the family’s loss. But how at this point could anyone not conclude the “Kennedy family”(seems ANYONE with .004 % bloodline inserts “Kennedy” into their name) are anything but a bunch of uber-wealthy f-ups?
Suicide is a hallmark of white privilege as a result of climate change.
I know. It’s a terrible tragedy. Or as the Kennedys and Clintons would say, “one less witness”.
Sad. It wasn’t her fault she was a Kennedy.
Who wears the ceremonial neck brace at the service in memory of the Lion of the Senate?
I have nothing good to say about the Kennedy’s. The whole family is a bunch of rich, spoiled, privileged elite, snobby ne’er do wells.
There isn’t a single republican family that has given as much for this country as the Kennedys. And no republican would ever get away with anything the Kennedy family has – walking away from a drowning woman was just the start. What about rapes on the Kennedy compound. No #metoo then.
This morning at breakfast, Peter Lawford yelled, “I call dibs on that little cutie pie!”
It’s not my fault that I was born white over a hundred years after the Civil War to a family that never owned slaves but that somehow I’m responsible for reparations to Somalian congress-Muzzloids that got off the plane 10 years ago.
It be like that some times.
@judgeroybean – Saoirse is an Irish name. It means “freedom.”
The Kennedy’s have caused more harm than good in this country. Given the infamous history of the Kennedy’s, this latest incident doesn’t seem unusal.
The young woman’s statement,”…someone I knew and loved broke serious sexual boundaries with me,” proves the depravity the Kennedys are known for.
BTW, curses are real and run through generations – Deuteronomy 28.
The name is Irish, sounds kind of like sir sh
She killed herself because she had her hair sniffed by Greezy Joe Biden and couldn’t bear the creepiness any longer.
@Jerry Manderin
“God needs to raise up someone in this world who will SHATTER that taboo of mental illness and inspire hope to those who suffer and take down the bigots in the process.
“Who could that be? 🤔”
Martin and Deidre Bobgan
Psychoheresy.org
The Kennedy Klan has not earned one centill a parise in my lifetime. Joe Kennedy, the founding patriarch of family has brought nothing but grief to themselves and America. Too bad they breed like alley cats.
God must hate the Kennedy family, but not as much as I do.
Sad. But Joe, Sr made a deal with the Devil and his family is still paying the terrible price.
Teddythedrunk murdered a woman and lived into old age. Doesn’t seem fair does it?