(Getty)ĭawn says she doesn't know if her son was suffering from depression. Dieter's loved ones are struggling to understand why he died. Just reach out, because you are so loved and you will be sorely missed if anything were to happen to you. She wants them to push through the pain and call Lifeline or Beyond Blue or their mother or their brother or their sister or their friends. What Dawn wants Australians who are suffering similarly to know is that they can reach out for help and know they are not a burden. Guilt that they didn't know Dieter needed them. A decision that has caused shockwaves around the world and sentenced his family and friends to a lifetime of suffering and despair and unanswered questions.Īnd guilt. (Getty)īut nobody knows, not even his family or those closest to him, because he wasn't able to reach out for help.ĭawn has been bravely speaking out after her son's death to try and prevent others from making the same decision her son did, a decision he can't take back. Dieter struggled to find work during NSW's extensive coronavirus lockdowns. His mother told 9Honey he had seemed happy the day before his death.
Nobody knows why Dieter made the choice he did that night. This fact hit Dawn hard, prompting her to launch a GoFundMe page in honour of her son to raise funds for Beyond Blue - hoping Australians who reach a point of despair, as she assumes Dieter did the night he died, reach out for help instead. RELATED: Tributes pour in for late Home and Away star Dieter Brummer: 'You're finally free' The mental health of the nation is at an all-time low, so low that on the day Dieter Brummer's family laid him to rest, Lifeline received more calls than it ever has in the past 58 years. Then New South Wales was placed in lockdown again and Dieter was out of work like, again, so many other innocent Australians. Dawn admits she is struggling follower her son's tragic death. That is until lockdown in 2020 put an end to that business and after being offered work as an industrial rope access technician by a friend's company in 2021, he thought he was back on his feet. So he found another one.ĭieter trained as an industrial rope access technician and started his own business that saw him abseiling between high-rise buildings in the city.
After leaving Home and Away he went on to star in a number of Australian dramas over the course of the next two decades, but ultimately he wasn't able to rely on his craft for a steady income. What quickly emerged in the hours following his death was that Dieter had struggled to find steady work as an actor, a fact confirmed by his mother.