TikToker Chris Rooney discharged from mental health facility after going missing theyeetbaby\/TikTokTikTok star Chris Rooney, who rose to fame with the Yeet Baby TikTok account, has been discharged from a mental health facility after Chris Rooney, better known as Uncle Chris on the Yeet Baby TikTok, checked out of a mental-health facility after a 17-day stay and thanked his followers for their support in an Instagram post on Monday. \u201cThank you for your thoughts and prayers everyone, it is truly appreciated,\u201d he said. \u201cI spent 17 days (not that I was counting) in a mental health facility.\u201d He said his mom had picked him up, and he was \u201cvery glad I got the help I needed and love being back!\u201d Chris went missing on July 25 from his home in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Loved ones made a public plea on social media to find Rooney, with police also called in to help. On August 3, 2023, an Instagram story post was shared on @theyeetbaby account, announcing he had been found safe: \u201cHe has been found safe. He is safe. Thank you for your prayers.\u201d In an update on Chris\u2019 Instagram, it was revealed that he had been struggling after watching the controversial child-trafficking movie Sound of Freedom. But this hadn\u2019t been enough, and Chris ended up admitting himself to a mental health facility. The August 3 statement said Rooney had seen the movie and was \u201csick to his core over it,\u201d and hadn\u2019t been \u201chimself\u201d while posting links about raising funds for the movie. That statement also included a message from Rooney at the end, who said he was thankful for the support. \u201cUnfortunately, there was nothing anyone could do to help me,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is something that I have to work on and am going to make it my life\u2019s mission to not only get myself healthy but also others.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikToker Chris Rooney discharged from mental health facility after going missing theyeetbaby\/TikTokTikTok star Chris Rooney, who rose to fame with the Yeet Baby TikTok account, has been discharged from a mental health facility after Chris Rooney, better known as Uncle Chris on the Yeet Baby TikTok, checked out of a mental-health facility after a 17-day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}