Chiara de Blasio tells all. Should your teen?
Chiara de Blasio helped get her dad elected mayor, flaunting quirky head gear and joking from the podium on primary night. But on Christmas Eve, the 19-year-old did something else: She bared her soul on YouTube about her history of depression and substance abuse.
The idea, she said, was to urge others to get help. Fiercely protective of her privacy while allowing her front and center on the campaign trail, her parents released a statement of support when the surprise video dropped.
While the timing was questioned — the four-minute video from her father’s transition team was released when many were distracted by the holidays — advocates for Chiara’s generation of digital natives lauded her speaking out publicly as the act of a brave young woman.