Tina Campbell, one half of the platinum-selling gospel duo Mary Mary, recently revealed some very dark thoughts she had while dealing with family drama a couple years ago.
During a promotional event for her new book and album, An Evening With Tina Campbell, the 41-year-old singer spoke very openly about a bout with depression she faced and the rock bottom emotions that came along with it. Campbell told the audience that dealing with her father’s death in 2013 and the ramifications of her husband’s infidelities almost became too much to deal with.
“I’ve been saved all my life and a representative of the Gospel could get so low that I wanted to die, kill my children, kill my husband and kill everybody, and go out with a bang, because life was that bad. But that’s exactly where I was in 2013, and God alone saved my life,” she told the audience.
Campbell said it was important to her to share her testimony about this stage in her life because it may serve as encouragement to others going through similar situations.
“Part of my testimony, my willingness to speak about the difficult times, comes from the joy I have in the knowledge that it was God who saved me,” she said on Yahoo Music’s Instagram page. “I want to let those feeling as low as I once did know that if He brought me through, He will bring you through! #OnlyJesusDidIt”
According to Campbell, a book and solo album were never in her plans, telling The Christian Post it all came about sort of organically.
“I went through my challenges that I went through last year with infidelity. In the process of writing journals to God, I ended up writing a book that I didn’t know I was writing,” she said. “Once I finished, God started downloading all of this music into me and I knew that God gave it to me to give it away.”
Campbell’s new book, I Need a Day to Pray, and new album, It’s Personal, are both available and in stores now.
