The heartbroken family of a tragic Scots teenager have made a desperate plea for Gerry Cinnamon to dedicate a song to their daughter at his Hampden gig this weekend.
Megan Reid, 17, was a huge fan of the Castlemilk star and it was her dream to see him live before she took her own life in April this year. The Livingston teenager's mum Gemma McKeown and auntie Sam Reid will be travelling through to Scotland's national stadium in Glasgow this weekend to attend the concert in her memory.
Gerry is set to take to the stage both tonight and tomorrow night - and the pair have tickets to the Sunday event. Speaking to Edinburgh Live, Sam, 29, said: "She loved Gerry Cinnamon and always has done; it was something we had planned on doing prior to covid, we were meant to go in May 2020, but it got cancelled, so we never got to do that, and then Megan passed away back in April.
"After Megan passed away money was tight because of the funeral and things, but we managed to get the money together for the event last week and thought right let's do it.
"It's a way for us to get together and talk about her and laugh; my sister is beside herself and has lost her oldest child and only daughter, I can't imagine her pain and she does us so proud, she's incredible and it will be so nice to see her smile even if its just for a minute.
"She was number one music all the time; she loved hair and makeup too. She was a typical teenager and music was number one, a lot of the things on her bucket list were all music related too like Gerry Cinnamon but also it was at the top to go to Tomorrowland so in a couple of years were hoping to get the money together and go over and do it for her again."
Sam added that the family is also aiming to open up a wider discussion of mental health and remove the stigma surrounding it.
She continued: "She's going to be there with us in spirit, and if Gerry was to see our ask it would mean so much to get her name back out there, she's left us all a little bit broken, and then maybe people would become more aware that suicide is about all the time and can happen to anyone anytime, if someone like him was to mention her maybe people would stop seeing suicide as such as a taboo.
"Some people are okay talking about it but for others, it almost feels like a dirty word, and we want people to realise that it isn't nothing to be ashamed of or hidden because the likelihood is if you can speak about these feelings then you will be able to get the help that you need.
"We just want to keep her name alive. When someone dies, everyone talks about it, but then people's lives move on, but with Megan, our whole world stopped and our world hasn't started again for us, for us we are all still in that hospital on April 5 saying our last goodbyes and this is the only way we can get ourselves out of that space just for a minute, to do things in her memory.
"I think it makes it difficult to reach out for help sometimes because sometimes people's thoughts are so dark it can be taboo to speak about, they will be nervous to go to a doctor or professional and say those things in the fear they'll get locked up. But the reality is that wouldn't happen and there are support systems out there that can help, it's just knowing where to go."
