Tom Daley reveals emotional toll of growing up in the spotlight: ‘I felt helpless for my younger self’

‘I felt helpless for my younger self’: Tom Daley on life in the spotlight Credit: The Independent

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00:00I feel like there's all kinds of things I didn't even know that I should have tried to even protect

00:04from a young age and I think maybe I would have tried to keep everything a lot more focused on

00:10the diving from a young age and not maybe go into so much of my personal life but you know I also

00:15there's certain parts I wouldn't necessarily regret anything because who knows how it would

00:19have actually shaped up in the future but yeah maybe I would have maybe if it was growing up

00:25in this day and age and having social media I might have been able to have a little bit more

00:28control about what was released and have more control of the narrative but it's uh yeah I

00:33don't know that was one of the hard things looking back at the documentary kind of feeling helpless

00:37for the younger version of myself