allegations of misconduct from 20 women who knew Clarke in a professional capacity.The Doctor Who star ‘vehemently’ denied ‘any sexual misconduct or criminal wrongdoing’ and said he was ‘deeply sorry’ if some of his actions had affected people ‘in ways I did not intend or realise’.Speaking out for the first time since the reports emerged, Clarke has claimed he considered taking his own life but reconsidered after a conversation with his son.‘I needed to do something unsurvivable,’ he said. ‘I was reaching for a book and the knife fell out of my pocket.
My 11-year-old said, “Daddy, why have you got that?”‘I said, “It’s just to pick the dirt out of my nails…” And he said, “Oh, OK,” and somehow the ordinariness of that snapped me out of it.‘Up to that point, I had been waiting for the right moment to kill myself.
I was out of here. Done. I didn’t care about anything. My mind was destroyed.’Clarke added that his 20-year career was destroyed in 24 hours as a result of the allegations.‘I lost everything,’ he continued to the Mail On Sunday. ‘The company I built from the ground up, my TV shows, my movies, my book deals, the industry respect I had.
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