Repair Shop presenter Jay Blades has revealed how he came close to taking his own life after he hit a rough patch five years ago.
The TV star, 50, struggled after the charity he was running collapsed, his wife left him and he lost his home all at the same time.
Jay considered suicide, after his organisation Out of the Dark – where he taught disadvantaged youths to restore old furniture – failed.
He recalls: “Everything came at once. “My marriage had broken down, I didn’t have any money and the people that I employed I had to make redundant.
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