Channel 4 Hunted star turned to Buddhism fight his crippling anxiety as cop

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Channel 4 ’s Hunted revealed he struggled with mental health problems after spending years putting himself in danger. Paul, who recently split from S Club 7 star Tina Barrett, has opened up about the life-or-death situations in which he found himself while working in a specialist robbery squad with the Met Police – including running over a gunman who had fired at police. READ MORE: Gogglebox faces schedule shake-up as Channel 4 postpone next week's show After finding a new career on Hunted, he has opened up about his crippling anxiety which led him to a complete lifestyle change and joining a Buddhist centre.Paul said: “The trauma replays in your mind and I learnt to overcome it is how you learn to remap and reframe your mind.

These things don’t go away and that’s when I started learning and meditating.“It just shows it can happen to anyone. Even someone like me who from the outside was pretty fearless.

People don’t believe me when I say I am part of a Buddhist centre, but I love it.“I never thought I would be someone to struggle with my mental health.

I was the captain of my rugby team, I was a confident policeman and I never thought in a million years that something like this would happen.