YouTuber Logan Paul has posted his first video since entering into a self-imposed silence after what has become known as the 'suicide forest controversy'.
After being publicly ripped to shreds for his decision to show the body of a suicide victim in a travel video, Paul said that he would be 'taking time to reflect' - and it looks like he has.
Titled 'Suicide: Be Here Tomorrow.', Paul's comeback video shows him meeting various anti-suicide campaigners over the past three weeks in an attempt to 'educate himself and others' about suicide.
The video starts on an odd note as Paul admits that he knows he has 'made mistakes' and 'let people down', showing how his scandal gained national TV coverage in the US.
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Featuring stark stats that 800,000 die worldwide by suicide each year, in the video Paul sets out to 'have a hard conversation so those who are suffering can have easier ones'.
Speaking with Bob Forrest, the founder of Alo House Recovery Center in Malibu, California, Paul broached the subject of the backlash he received, saying he 'has never been so humbled in his life by a single event'.
"I was shocked to discover just how big this is," he said. "That was part of the problem, just my ignorance of the subject [suicide].
"I know while I'm not able to solve the problem by myself, I want to be a part of the solution."
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Paul then travels to New York to speak with Dr. John Draper, director of the US' National Suicide Prevention Hotline.
In the video, Dr Draper says that the public conversation needs to shift from acknowledging the problem surrounding suicide to answering the question 'What do we do about it?"
According to the doctor, sending stories out there of people positively coping with suicide would help address the stigma.
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"For everyone that dies by suicide, there's 287 other people that think seriously about it but don't," Dr Draper says.
"If we told those stories of people who got through it instead of one who didn't, imagine the kind of influence that would have on people's behaviour."
Paul's talk with Dr. Draper leads him to his final interviewee, film-maker, author and suicide survivor Kevin Hines, who survived jumping off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge 17 years ago.
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Hines echoes Dr. Draper's comments, saying that a more open conversation about mental health is required.
He says: "We need to be a society that comes together for every person in the community that's going through hell and in order to do that every person that's going through hell - whatever hell - has to be honest about their pain.
"If they're going to be honest about their pain we're going to collectively answer the call and be there for that individual because if you don't see beauty in the next person you meet, you're not looking hard enough."
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Paul ends the video by hugging it out with Hines, pledging to make an effort to 'contribute and immerse himself in the conversation'.
He even makes the pledge to donate $1 million to various suicide prevention foundations with the first $250,000 going to the National Suicide and Crisis Helpline.
"It's time to start a new chapter in my life as I continue to educate both myself and others on suicide," Paul says. "I'm humbled and thankful to say this is just the beginning."
Paul's decision to return to the public eye so soon contradicts the advice of experts who said he would be better 'staying dark' until the summer at least.
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Featured Image Credit: Twitter/Logan PaulTopics: Logan Paul, Celebrity, US News, YouTube