Monty Don, 67, had been running a jewellery business with his wife Sarah and selling gems to the likes of Michael Jackson and Princess Diana, before losing everything and being declared bankrupt.
He felt so desperately unhappy that he resorted to finding a healer, but they told him nothing more could be done for him, sparking off the very relationship with nature that made him a household name.The Gardeners' World star recalled that, after the financial crisis of 1987 caused him to lose his business, he felt "angry with his own skin".He suffered bouts of depression so intense that Sarah was terrified not just for his wellbeing but for that of their children, who had begun to ask: "Why is daddy always crying?"He admitted in his book The Jewel Garden, which chronicles everything from his business failure to his subsequent gardening successes, that his temper had become "unreasonable".Monty revealed: "[In the end] I went to see a healer.
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