Bishop Eddie Long Talks About Having Thoughts Of Committing Suicide

Bishop Eddie Long Talks About Having Thoughts Of Committing Suicide

BHR Hollywood Reports...........Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, recently opened up about a dark time in his life.

 Years ago, Long was sued by former church members and endured a sex scandal, amid many other charges.

 Baptist Church Eddie Long

He told his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church congregation that the suicidal thoughts started when he was getting "condemned from the four corners of the Earth."

"I had a moment... I wanted to kill myself and was ready," he said.

While he did not specify what caused him to have these thoughts, the context of his words appear to fit with the 2010 allegations that he preyed on several young men for sexual favors.

 He was slapped with four lawsuits after the scandal went public. They were all eventually dismissed "with prejudice" in 2011.

In the video, titled "The Power of God's Love," a teary-eyed Long said because "my family loved me, my church loved me... regardless of what anybody said, love lifted me and carried me.

And you didn't judge me. There are folk here who know what I mean, that you're alive because somebody loved you.

They didn't give you a sermon, they didn't question you, they didn't call you before a council."