Save Maia Campbell

[southsuburbs]

http://www.chicagonow.com/six-brown-chicks/2011/10/save-maia-campbell/

In her former life, Maia Campbell was the living Black Barbie Doll on the hit show, In the House with LL Cool J. Years later, she is now down and out in Los Angeles, allegedly strung out on meth and/or crack.

The once flawless ebony beauty has withered to skin and bones. Maia is dirty, apparently homeless, and there are scenes in the various YouTube videos where it’s obvious that she doesn’t even know where she is.

One video shows a man asking Maia to give him oral sex as she’s sitting
in the passenger’s seat of a car, furiously eating potato chip crumbs, and mumbling about trying to find her daughter.

Maia is someone’s daughter, too.

Maia’s mother, celebrated author Bebe Moore Campbell, spoke openly about a family member’s struggle with mental illness, and she penned revealing nonfiction books about divorce "Successful Women, Angry Men:
Backlash in the Two-Career Marriage" (1986), and Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad (1989).

Bebe Moore Campbell passed away in 2006 from brain cancer

I am saddened and confused as to why no one from Black Hollywood has stepped up to the plate.

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There are pictures of Maia on the link. I didnt' know her mom was Bebe Moore Campbell.

Sad...

 

[SUJagFan]

Serious question: What could be done?

I wouldn't have any idea where to start trying to help her.

Does anybody here know what could be done for her?

 

[97JSULEGEND]

Oh well!!!! Only God can help that child...

 

[JagGrad]

My God I hate seeing that.... I hope a hand out to help and she is able and willing to receive..

 

[jstate83]

There are so many videos on Youtube of her with them LA Gangstas it ain't even news anymore. She just another hoodrat now and be acting like it on camera.

 

[cat daddy]

My God I hate seeing that.... I hope a hand out to help and she is able and willing to receive..

That's the key right there. People can do everything in the world to help. But if she does not want help, there is nothing to do for her.

 

[FAMU CLIFF]

That's the key right there. People can do everything in the world to help. But if she does not want help, there is nothing to do for her.

Crazy thing is you have people commenting on the youtube video that someone in hollywood should rescue her, but these same folks have crackheads in their family they have not saved.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

 

[MACKG]

You can lead a cow to the water, but you can't force it to drink

 

[ATLJag]

I went to school with Maia Campbell way back in the 6th grade. Her mother came to speak to our class one day. Naturally, at that time Maia was just the girl with glasses in Mr. Evans' class and Bebe Moore Campbell was simply "Maia's mom" even though she had already written a book by that time.

What is really sad about this is that aside from the obvious struggle with mental illness, the story had a happy beginning and didn't have to turn out like this. However, at this point there isn't much that can be done if she doesn't want to help herself.

This can also be an example of why don't step on people as you are climbing to the top. The same friends and associates that she probably could have turned to after her mother's death or even beforehand were mainly the same people that she turned her back on when she became successful.

 

[Dr. Phreeze]

I went to school with Maia Campbell way back in the 6th grade. Her mother came to speak to our class one day. Naturally, at that time Maia was just the girl with glasses in Mr. Evans' class and Bebe Moore Campbell was simply "Maia's mom" even though she had already written a book by that time.

What is really sad about this is that aside from the obvious struggle with mental illness, the story had a happy beginning and didn't have to turn out like this. However, at this point there isn't much that can be done if she doesn't want to help herself.


This can also be an example of why don't step on people as you are climbing to the top. The same friends and associates that she probably could have turned to after her mother's death or even beforehand were mainly the same people that she turned her back on when she became successful.

Ouch!

 

[The Founder]

I went to school with Maia Campbell way back in the 6th grade. Her mother came to speak to our class one day. Naturally, at that time Maia was just the girl with glasses in Mr. Evans' class and Bebe Moore Campbell was simply "Maia's mom" even though she had already written a book by that time.

What is really sad about this is that aside from the obvious struggle with mental illness, the story had a happy beginning and didn't have to turn out like this. However, at this point there isn't much that can be done if she doesn't want to help herself.

This can also be an example of why don't step on people as you are climbing to the top. The same friends and associates that she probably could have turned to after her mother's death or even beforehand were mainly the same people that she turned her back on when she became successful.

Wow...so she basically was the type of person not to give back when she was on top per se...

Life is a circle.

 

[Panther88]

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

I like this and have to use this. Thanks.

Sad situation about Ms Campbell. Hope she gets the required direction to right her personal ship.