Overview
- Nguyen says an Instagram post published this week describes a severe depressive episode following the April suborbital trip.
- She writes that coverage generated “billions of hostile impressions,” calling the volume of negativity an onslaught no person could endure.
- Nguyen reports she did not leave Texas for a week and later hung up on a senior Blue Origin staffer because she could not speak through tears.
- The roughly 11‑minute flight featured an all‑female crew that included Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, Aisha Bowe, and Kerianne Flynn.
- She says she is recovering eight months later and notes positives such as attention for her breast‑cancer research and becoming the first Vietnamese and first Southeast Asian woman in space.