He’s considered one of Australia’s best live acts.
And David Le’aupepe revisited his darker days on Monday as he shared an emotional message about the day he tried to take his own life on Instagram.
The Gang Of Youths rocker, 26, shared the snap himself throwing up a peace sign to the camera during a sunny day out, and detailed how everything had ‘overwhelmed him’ when he made the decision to ‘make it all stop for good’.
‘I’m glad I’m still here’: Gang Of Youths frontman David Le’aupepe, 26, shared an emotional open letter via Instagram on the anniversary of his suicide attempt on Monday
In the sensitive post, David explained how he reached the decision to take his own life, and paid tribute to his friends who keep him alive ‘every day’ despite his hectic and exhausting schedule.
David wrote: ‘4 years ago, I tried to kill myself. There was this moment, where the belief that there would never be anything more than the s*** and p*** in everything overwhelmed me for a moment, and I made a decision to make it all stop for good.
‘Every day can still be hard and weird. My job leaves me depleted and often sleepless, ridden with anxiety and worry. Often, I am not worthy of the platform onto which I’ve stumbled. Often I feel like letting the dark swallow me up.’

Overwhelmed: In the sensitive open letter, David explained how he reached the decision to take his own life, and paid tribute to his friends who keep him alive ‘every day’
David credited his wife Cort Bray for ‘sticking around’ despite his emotional turmoil, and called her ‘miraculous’ for standing by him.
‘Every year, I think back to June 3rd, 2014. The day where my friends let me know that I am not s*** and p***.
‘I am reminded that my wife, the band, my loved ones, my family and you who care about what we do in GOY have given me more reasons to get up out of bed than I could enumerate.

Popular: The indie rock band first burst onto the scene in 2012 when David finished high school in Sydney with friend’s Joji Malani, Jung Kim, Max Dunn and Sam O’Donnell
David concluded the heartfelt post telling his loved ones, including his current wife Cort Bray, ‘I am glad I am still here’.
The popular indie rock band – who are now based in the UK – first burst onto the scene in 2012 when David finished high school in Sydney with friend’s Joji Malani, Jung Kim, Max Dunn and Sam O’Donnell.
David and the group found fame with their 2013 hit Evangelists, but David soon fell into despair after his first wife was diagnosed with lung cancer.
The band worked hard to create an album for his wife in efforts to ease her hospital visits.

David added: ‘My job leaves me depleted and often sleepless, ridden with anxiety and worry. Often, I am not worthy of the platform onto which I’ve stumbled’
While his then-fiancee survived, David was left feeling worthless and went down a path of self-destruction, culminating in the end of his marriage and his attempted suicide.
‘I wasn’t in a good place,’ he told North Shore News in May, but credited his band members from bringing him back from the brink.
David continued: ‘Being in a band is like friendship on steroids because you’re in a business, you’re in each other’s space, you’re in each other’s lives constantly. You see the best and the very f***ing worst.’
He added: ‘I needed them desperately and then they came through for me.’
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Turmoil: David and the group found fame with their 2013 hit Evangelists, but David soon fell into despair after his first wife was diagnosed with lung cancer