Actor Stephen Fry reveals suicide attempt last year
- 11 years ago
Most know him for his role in British comedy "Blackadder", he's also a regular cheerful face on British television and the narrator of the "Harry Potter" audio books.
But this time Stephen Fry has opened about about his personal life and his battle with mental illness during an interview with comedian Richard Herrings, which was broadcast on Wednesday (June 5).
In it he revealed publicly for the first time that he recently tried to end his life.
SOUNDBITE: Stephen Fry, Britisha actor, saying (English):
"I have a condition which requires me to take medication so that I don't get either too hyper or too depressed to this point of suicide. I'd go as far as to tell you I attempted it last year.
"I took a huge number of pills and a huge number of vodka and the mixture of them made my body convulse so much that I broke four ribs. But I was still unconscious. And fortunately, the producer I was filming with at the time came into the hotel room and I was found in
But this time Stephen Fry has opened about about his personal life and his battle with mental illness during an interview with comedian Richard Herrings, which was broadcast on Wednesday (June 5).
In it he revealed publicly for the first time that he recently tried to end his life.
SOUNDBITE: Stephen Fry, Britisha actor, saying (English):
"I have a condition which requires me to take medication so that I don't get either too hyper or too depressed to this point of suicide. I'd go as far as to tell you I attempted it last year.
"I took a huge number of pills and a huge number of vodka and the mixture of them made my body convulse so much that I broke four ribs. But I was still unconscious. And fortunately, the producer I was filming with at the time came into the hotel room and I was found in