Sideshow: Analyzing Paris Jackson's depression

Paris Jackson's suicide attempt Wednesday didn't come out of the blue, an Unnamed Source tells People. The late Michael Jackson's 15-year-old daughter has been suffering from depression for some time.

She is now stabilized at an undisclosed Southern California hospital.

"Paris has been very, very depressed for a while. She's been throwing fits and tantrums, kicking and screaming and cutting herself," says the Source. Photos recently published in the tabloids show a series of scars on Paris' arms, suggesting she has practiced the self-harm ritual of "cutting."

On the day in question, Paris flew into a rage after her family forbade her to go to a Marilyn Manson concert. She locked herself in her room, where she took more than 20 ibuprofen pills, cut her wrists with a kitchen knife, wrote a suicide note, and called a suicide hotline. The hotline operator immediately called 911.

 People mag's source says Paris has found it especially difficult to cope in the weeks leading up to the fourth anniversary of MJ's death June 25. "She was the center of Michael's world, and it's all different now. She says that she is lonely and that she doesn't feel loved."

Manson, for his part, gives TMZ a message for Paris: "I hope you feel better. You will be on my guest list anytime you want."

The under-30 set doesn't have a corner on depression. Just ask Philadelphia native Holland Taylor, who stars in Two and a Half Men as Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer's suffocating, domineering, Medea-like mother. "I've suffered depression. From my early 40s into my mid-50s," the Westtown School alumna tells Parade. It was bad enough for her "to entertain the idea of going into a hospital."

Taylor, 70, who attended that chichi arts-'n'-lit haven, Bennington College, says she was on antidepressants for 15 years. "Antidepressants take away the lows," she says, "but they also reduce the highs."

Taylor can understand why the show's former star Sheen has a tendency to go off the deep end: He grew up the son of Martin Sheen, "a young, crazy, brilliant talent" and a substance-abuser."

"It was just a madhouse way to grow up," Taylor says. The pressure and the temptation grew exponentially when Charlie became a star in his teens and had "hundreds of thousands of dollars in his pocket at any given moment." Martin embraced sobriety and his native Catholic faith many years ago. Will Charlie follow?

British comedy god Stephen Fry, 55, reveals in a BBC chat with comic Richard Herring that he tried to commit suicide last year by washing down "a huge number of pills" with vodka. The drugs made him convulse so violently he broke four ribs, he says. That wasn't the first time: Fry has previously said he tried to kill himself in 1995.

Fry is known for his years-long collaborations with Hugh Laurie, including the period piece Jeeves and Wooster (there are no shows funnier in the history of television).

He tells Herring that he suffers from bipolar disorder, but that he's feeling well again. To help fellow sufferers, he has become president of a British mental-health charity.

Syfy's wry Eddie McClintock-'n'-Joanne-Kelly drama Warehouse 13 will die after its fifth season, which begins production June 24 in Toronto.

The viral success of the John D. Boswell-remixed Mister Rogers music video, "Garden of Your Mind" (it has garnered 8.8 million views on YouTube!), has inspired PBS Digital Studios (www.youtube.com/user/ pbsdigitalstudios) to launch a series of remixes, including the Rogers song "Sing Together," music-enhanced clips from Reading Rainbow and Julia Child's cooking show, and even an animated remix of an interview with late author David Foster Wallace. Support public broadcasting!

William Shatner will guest June 19 on the live (a live sitcom!) premiere of TV Land's Hot in Cleveland. The series stars Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, and Betty White.

American novelist A.M. Homes, 51, has won the Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called the Orange Prize) with her sixth novel, May We Be Forgiven. The book was described by prize judge Miranda Richardson as a "dazzling, original, viscerally funny black comedy" and a "subversion of the American dream."

Pottstown native Daryl Hall, 66, has signed to host a home-restoration show for the DIY Network. Daryl's Restoration Over-Hall will premiere sometime next year.

Phillies' pitcher Cole Hamels, late-night gab host Jimmy Fallon, and rock legend Alice Cooper are some of the celebs expected to call in to chat with John DeBella on WMGK (102.9-FM) during the seventh annual John DeBella Veterans Radiothon. It'll air live from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. next Friday from outside the National Constitution Center. Proceeds benefit local veterans. Info: www.wmgk.com.