Saoirse Kennedy Hill Wrote About Depression, Suicide Years Before Death

A Barnstable Police cruiser sits at the top of Marchant Avenue as police investigate the death of Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the granddaughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, on Aug. 1, 2019. Reuters/Faith Ninivaggi

Former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill wrote about her battle with depression and taking her own life in a high-school newspaper, it was reported.

Hill, 22, died on the afternoon of Aug. 1 of an apparent overdose at her family’s home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.