Australian tennis player Destanee Aiava has revealed in a post that’s both heartbreaking and uplifting that on Easter Sunday she was saved by three strangers who were driving past as she prepared to end her life.
Aiava was 21 at the time and said in an Instagram post she did not want to make it to her 22nd birthday, but she’s survived to tell her story.
Aiava accompanied the Instagram post with a picture of her smiling in a dress.
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“The night of Easter Sunday (17th April) I was going to throw myself off a bridge onto the M1, three people drove by, dragged me off the rails and drove me home,” Aiava wrote on her birthday, May 10.
“I did not want to make it to my 22nd birthday, but I know my family and friends would be happy to know I’m alive on this day that’s meant to be special.
“Sometimes people you come across in life can make you feel that you’re unworthy of being loved, but at the end of the day I’ve learnt – ‘God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength but with your testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it’.
“Thank you for sending your love and well wishes if you have today,
“Love D.”
Aiava hails from Melbourne and has a career-high WTA ranking of 192, which she achieved in October 2019.
She made her grand slam debut at the 2017 Australian Open, making history as the first player born in 2000 or later, male or female, to compete in the main draw of a major.
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