Britain's Got Talent star Ashley Banjo, Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock, This Morning's Rochelle Humes and other black celebrities have teamed up for Vas Morgan's mental health campaign.
Celebrities from the world of acting, fashion, music and performing have joined forces in an incredible act of solidarity to state "I Am Enough" for a campaign created by The Only Way Is Essex star Vas to mark World Suicide Prevention Day.
The star-studded lineup includes Ashley Banjo, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Rochelle Humes, Winnie Harlow, Fleur East, Natalie Emmanuel, Evan Ross, Ricky Thompson, Leomie Anderson and Sabrina Elba.
The emotional video aims to demonstrate to the black community that who they are is enough and hopes to elevate mental health issues brought on by recent global events and the continued discrimination of black people in society.
Vas explained: "Like so many black people, my mental health has been deeply impacted by events this year. For me, they have brought back a lot of traumatic memories of low self-esteem and self-hate, essentially being told that black was wrong. If I was feeling this way, I knew many others within the black community would be feeling exactly the same too.
"I've been fortunate to have received extensive treatment for my own mental battles in the past but know many aren’t so lucky, which is why I wanted to launch this campaign, to show people that they are enough and provide them with the vital support they need."
The campaign, which has so fair raised over £50,000, is to give members of the black community free access to resources to help deal with trauma and other mental health related issues.
Vas made headlines earlier this year after he claimed there were a handful of moments where a male TOWIE co-star would make racist comments right in front of him.
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He told Metro.co.uk: "I would overhear conversations of a male cast member saying to the girls like, "Oh yeah you effed – like slept with – that n***** in the past". I'd be on set listening to this."
The reality star added: "The problem is, when you do speak up on that show, it turns into a storyline.
"But where I know they would never delve into the racial aspects on the storyline, it would just turn into me against them for a whole season, based off of a small thing that I'd maybe overheard."
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