Content Warning: This article discusses suicide and may be triggering to some people.

Two weeks after Yarraka Bayles live-streamed a heartbreaking video of her 9-year-old sons despair in the wake of being bullied over his short stature, the family sat down in their first televised interview.

The original video, in which Bayles son Qauden expressed the urge to take his life multiple times, was viewed 25 million times in less than two days and sparked a global conversation, as well as a string of hateful lies online.

NITV confirmed to HuffPost Australia the Bayles family declined an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and other paid international appearances to focus on the issues that matter most to them and their community: bullying, youth suicide and the plight of Australias First Peoples.