Daisy Colema – star of Netflix documentary Audrey & Daisy – shot herself dead hours after police carried out a wellness check at her concerned mother’s request

Daisy Coleman, who opened up about her rape ordeal in the Netflix documentary Audrie & Daisy, committed suicide in Lakewood, Colorado hours after a wellness check, it has been confirmed.

Coleman took her own life on Tuesday night at the age of 23, and her body was discovered after her mother Melinda asked police to do a welfare check, which was carried out before her death.

The local police department responded to a call from Melinda at around 4 p.m. on Tuesday about a ‘possibly suicidal party’, and sent paramedics and agents trained in crisis intervention, according to TMZ.

Daisy then reportedly spoke to the agents for over an hour, but did not say or give any indication to them that she wanted to harm herself. 

Because of this, she was medically cleared, and there was no legal reason to hold her on the grounds of mental health reasons.

However, at around 8.30 p.m., police received another phone call from a female friend of Daisy’s saying that she had shot herself inside her apartment, with police later confirming this.

Daisy Coleman, 23, killed herself on Tuesday night. Her body was discovered after her mother Melinda asked police to do a welfare check

Coleman spoke in the 2016 film about how she was plied with alcohol in 2012 and raped in a Missouri house at the age of 14, but no one was ever convicted.

Just 10 days after being raped by the boys, Audrie Pott took her own life.’She never recovered from what those boys did to her and it’s just not fair. My baby girl is gone,’ Coleman’s mother told TMZ on Wednesday.

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‘She was my best friend and amazing daughter. I think she had to make it seem like I could live without her. I can’t. I wish I could have taken the pain from her!’ Daisy Coleman in 2016 Netflix documentary on rape survivors

Coleman’s SafeBAE organization shared the news on Instagram Wednesday and said she had ‘struggled with healing for years.’ 

After the Netflix documentary aired she said she found it hard to listen to then Nodaway County Sheriff Darren White’s clear belief that Daisy and her friend Paige – who was raped on the same night – were somehow as culpable as the boys. He also slipped a note to the camera that ‘teenage girls lie.’

Coleman had tried to kill herself at least four times in the past.

She suffered victim blaming from the community. T-shirts worn by people in her dance class read: ‘ ‘Matt 1: Daisy 0.’

Social media exploded with hateful hashtags, branding Daisy a ‘skank’ a ‘whore’ and a ‘liar.’

Coleman ended up self-harming and carved the name of the alleged rapist into her skin.

In 2013 their house was burned down in a fire that her mother Melinda believes was deliberate.

‘We are devastated to share with all of our inspiring supporters that we have suffered an irreplaceable loss. Our co-founder, sister, Daisy Coleman ended her life by suicide today,’ the SafeBAE organization said in a statement.

‘She never recovered from what those boys did to her and it’s just not fair. My baby girl is gone,’ Coleman’s mother Melinda said on Wednesday. Daisy Coleman is pictured, right

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Coleman’s SafeBAE organization shared the news on Instagram Wednesday and said she had ‘struggled with healing for years’

Her co-star Audrie Pott died by suicide 10 days after being raped in 2012

‘As many of you know she’s struggled with healing for years and had been making incredible progress, but healing is never a straight path and can often have setbacks.

‘But she would want you all to know how much she loves this work and all of you who have joined us in it.’

SafeBAE works to help prevent sexual assault of high school-age people. It also helps young survivors. Coleman started it with three other women from PAVE (Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment).

‘Nothing inspired her more than knowing she could help survivors and work to prevent sexual violence. We want you all to know that our entire team is here to help and support you, as we all grieve this loss,’ the organization continued in a statement.

‘We want to remember Daisy for the incredible person she was and the legacy she has given us with SafeBAE. We will continue to do the work she was so proud of and dedicated to building.’

Tragedy struck the family last year when Coleman’s younger brother died in a car accident.

She was raped a few years after her father Dr Michael Coleman was killed in a car crash.

They had moved to Maryville, Missouri from Albany, Missouri, some 40 miles away, in 2009 hoping to make new and better memories.

Picture shows Daisy Coleman, left, age 14, and Paige, right, age 13 shortly before they were both raped on September 3, 2012

At around 1 a.m. Daisy and Paige were having a sleepover at Daisy’s house when they decided to sneak out – at the invitation of Matthew Barnett, left, who was charged with child endangerment. His friends Nick Groumoutis, center, and Jordan Zech, right, were also at the gathering. Daisy’s brother, Charlie, regarded Groumoutis as his best friend but was wary of Barnett

Daisy Coleman is photographed in her room on October 16, 2013 at age 16

Coleman, then 14, and her best friend Paige Parkhurst, 13, were raped in the basement of one of the high school’s most popular footballers, the scion of a well connected political family.

Much of what happened on the night of September 3, 2012 is undisputed.

At around 1 a.m. Daisy and Paige were having a sleepover at Daisy’s house when they decided to sneak out – at the invitation of Matthew Barnett, now 22. His friends Jordan Zech, 24, Nick Groumoutis, 23 and Cole Forney, 22, were also present.

Daisy’s brother, Charlie, 23, regarded Groumoutis as his best friend but was wary of Barnett. He told her not to text him but she ignored him.

Almost immediately the girls were separated. Barnett admitted having sex with Daisy – 14 is the age of consent in the state of Missouri – but said it was consensual and that Daisy did not drink heavily until afterwards.

Daisy recalled being offered a drink from what the boys called the ‘bitch cup’ – a tall shot glass – then being offered a second and not remembering anything after that.

He used Nick Groumoutis’s cell phone to record but claimed he thought they were just ‘dry humping.’ The video was deleted – after reportedly being passed around the school – but never retrieved by law enforcement.

Paige’s rapist confessed and was convicted in juvenile court, but it was only after a second investigation that Daisy’s alleged rapist was convicted in adult court on the lesser charge of child endangerment.

Daisy Coleman had tried to take her own life numerous times since the ordeal in 2012

‘We want to remember Daisy for the incredible person she was and the legacy she has given us with SafeBAE,’ the organization to help high school students affected by sexual assault said Wednesday

Coleman told Dailymail.com in 2017: ‘I was very young [when it happened] so obviously I did not cope with it well. I was very negative towards myself. I lost all of my confidence. I didn’t realize who I was anymore because I lost my position on the cheerleading squad.

‘I faced a lot of identity problems and a lot of that journey was just redefining myself and recognizing that even though all these people are saying all these things about me doesn’t mean that they’re true, because I get to define who I am.’

She added that she had forgiven her rapist: ‘I feel no resentment towards my attacker only because I have come to realize that he was only passing on some form of negativity to me which at some point was passed onto him so once I came to that realization…that made me forgive him in a sense even though he never presented an apology.’