Jeremy Gillitzer on Inside Edition [VIDEO]
Inside Edition, the national television show that named Jeremy Gillitzer one of its most Extraordinary Stories of '08, ran a segment on his death tonight.
This morning, I did a remote interview from downtown Minneapolis to New York. Jeremy Gillitzer's mother was also interviewed--speaking for the first time publicly about the pain she has gone through being the mother of a son with an eating disorder.
It occurs to me that the broadcast is likely to bring Jeremy's story to the attention of a new audience. For those who want to know more about Jeremy Gillitzer's life and untimely death, I've put together this multimedia account.
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| The October 30, 2007 issue of City Pages told Jeremy's story. |
We ran additional multimedia content about Jeremy Gillitzer online. Perhaps the most arresting element was this slideshow of Jeremy Gillitzer suffering advanced anorexia.
During the interviewing, I asked Jeremy to read several of his diary entries into a microphone so we could hear Jeremy's struggle with anorexia in his own words:
* Part one (:25) Jeremy introduces himself and summarizes his adolescence.
* Part two (:18) "I am not only starving for food, but also for human touch."
* Part three (:45) "Some people say that the body is a temple. My body is a dungeon."
* Part four (:35) A description of days consumed by an eating disorder.
* Part five (:30) "If I ever make it through this eating disorder alive ... which I hope I do not."
* Part six (:40) A harrowing description of the role vomiting plays in Jeremy's life.
* Part seven (1:00) This series of blog entries track Jeremy's dropping weight and the specific physical consequences associated with his condition.
* Part eight (:15) What Jeremy wants.
This documentary was made a few years before I first met Jeremy, and graphically showed his dental problems as well as his compulsive exercising.
Days after the cover story appeared on the stands, Jeremy was involuntarily committed. He asked that we run a follow-up post informing his friends online what had happened to him and how to reach him.
After he was released, he appeared on Inside Edition, which later named Jeremy Gillitzer one of the Most Extraordinary Stories of '08.
On June 1, Jeremy Gillitzer died at the age of 38. At the time of his death, he weighed just 66 pounds.
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| Nick Vlcek |
| Jeremy Gillitzer: 8/23/71 -- 6/1/10 |
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