Noel Edmonds opens up about emotional goodbye messages for daughters after suicide attempt
NOEL EDMONDS has opened up about his suicide attempt as he revealed he recorded goodbye messages for his daughters.
Noel Edmonds opened up about recording goodbye messages for his daughters after his suicide attempt
The 68-year-old former Deal Or No Deal host previously admitted that his HBOS debt nearly drove him to take his own life 12 years ago.
Noel has now revealed that he even wrote a letter to his ex-wife and recorded messages for his four daughters as he struggled with his demons during the dark period of his life.
In a video for ITV news, he spoke out about the struggle he faced at the time, saying: "My world imploded. And I lost my home. I went into a very dark space.
"The only way I can describe it is it is the darkest space that the human mind ever occupies," he continued. "You see nothing. I mean I had four daughters, I had a wife, I had mates. I saw nothing in that dark space.
Noel said that he wrote a letter to his ex-wife and recorded goodbyes for his four daughters
Noel previously revealed that he nearly took his own life after amid his HBOS debt
"I wrote a letter to my now ex-wife explaining as best I could why I'd reached the end, and I recorded little dictaphone messages to my daughters, basically saying goodbye," he added.
The frank recollection comes after Noel revealed that he attempted suicide after a "crooked banker" cost him what he estimated to be £300 million.
"It cost me my security, my image rights, my collection of classic cars - and very nearly my life," he told the Daily Mail.
The Deal Or No Deal host opened up about the 'dark space' he was in after the crippling debt
Noel Edmonds believes a negative attitude causes cancer
The TV presenter said that he had headed to a forest where he intended to end his life at a location which held powerful memories of his late mother and where he burned her belongings after she passed away.
"I've thought a lot about that dark place I got to," he confessed. "Thankfully, it is beyond the comprehension of most people.
"Yes, people suffer from depression. But it is not quite the same as the space you to into when all reason goes, when rationality and logic and hope vanish."
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