Stephen Fry has revealed he was a suicidal teenager and admitted he tried to take his personal life aged 17.
In a brand new interview, the author, actor, director and comic, now 65, admitted he felt “misplaced and misplaced” throughout his “disastrous childhood” that led to a jail time period.
After being expelled from a number of faculties, on the age of 17, Stephen was convicted of bank card fraud and despatched to Pucklechurch Jail on remand for 3 months.
Candid childhood chat: Stephen Fry, 65, has revealed he was a suicidal teenager and admitted making an attempt to take his personal life aged 17 after a jail stint for bank card fraud
Stephen, who has a historical past of manic melancholy and suffers from bipolar dysfunction, instructed the Diary of A CEO podcast: “I used to be a disruptive, deeply troublesome, soiled youngster.”
He recalled: “Socially, I by no means slot in and felt included, as a result of I used to be dangerous at all the pieces that was valued as a baby.”
Stephen defined that he could not catch a ball, he could not paint and wasn’t musical, saying all he had was his “ardour for language”.
It was on the boarding faculty. I used to be despatched away on the age of seven. My dad and mom had been on the east coast in Norfolk and I used to be despatched to Gloucestershire on the west coast.
Throwback: In a brand new interview, the star, now 65, admitted he felt ‘misplaced and gone’ throughout his ‘disastrous childhood’ which led to a jail stint (pictured aged 14)
Actual discuss: Stephen, who has a historical past of melancholy and suffers from bipolar dysfunction, instructed the Diary of A CEO podcast: “I used to be a disruptive, deeply troublesome, soiled youngster”
“To some individuals it sounds a little bit merciless to ship a baby 200 miles away. However that is what occurred, what I felt. My brother had gone, and everybody at that college was in the identical state of affairs.’
“From the age of seven to 13 I used to be very disruptive,” the star admitted, earlier than recalling how, aged 13, he began doing “unusual issues” after falling in love with a boy.
He mentioned ‘Issues are effervescent up inside you. Issues begin taking place in your thoughts and soul. I used to be not ready for the wonderful catastrophe of affection.
‘I began doing bizarre issues like climbing all of the roofs. It was the primary faculty I used to be expelled from. Then I left house and went to London.’
Trustworthy: “From the age of seven to 13 I used to be very disruptive,” the star admitted, earlier than recalling how, aged 13, he began doing “unusual issues” after falling in love with a boy.
Later within the chat, Stephen revealed: ‘My dad and mom took me to a psychiatrist after I was 14. A really grand Harley Avenue workplace.
– Apparently the issues I did and the way I behaved had been typical of individuals from troubled households. He wrote one thing out for me.
He added: “They realized there was a psychological kink in me,” however sadly Stephen wasn’t recognized with bipolar till the age of 37.
Elsewhere within the podcast chat, Stephen admitted to making an attempt to commit suicide when he was 17, admitting: “The very first thing I wished to do was take my life.”
Household: ‘My dad and mom took me to a psychiatrist after I was 14… He prescribed one thing for me… ‘They acknowledged that there was a psychological kink in me’ (Pictured in 2003 along with his dad and mom)
Stephen additionally recalled how, after transferring to London at 17, he then stole a coat from a pub and later realized it had a pockets with two bank cards in it, which was “very simple to make use of fraudulently.”
Lastly, after utilizing them to dwell lavishly throughout the nation, he was arrested and despatched to jail for 3 months, and later obtained two years of probation.
He mentioned: ‘So, the very best factor to do after a disastrous childhood, I made a decision, was now to focus on stepping into Cambridge.
“It modified all the pieces … I need to please individuals. And if I do not please them, I get upset. I’ve achieved it mistaken.’
Stephen has beforehand raised consciousness of psychological well being after talking publicly about his personal battle with melancholy.
In 2013, the star admitted that he tried to commit suicide the 12 months earlier than by overdosing on a cocktail of vodka and tablets, and was solely saved by a producer who noticed him.
Talking in 2021, Fry mentioned he had seen a “basic improve in unhappiness amongst younger individuals” – no matter their social standing – and warned his visits to colleges as a part of psychological well being charity Thoughts confirmed him a “prevalence of self-harm”.
He instructed the Clean podcast: “There may be the final improve in unhappiness among the many younger which is manifested if nothing else by the horrible epidemic of self-harm, which I do not bear in mind as a baby.
“It might simply be that we had been shielded from the present or it might be that it did not actually exist in the best way it does now.
“However I do not bear in mind the phrase ‘self-harm’, I do not bear in mind ever listening to of a kid – who I went to high school with or any faculty I went to – slicing themselves with knives.
He added: ‘I have been to what you may describe as sinking faculties. It is a horrible phrase however faculties whose college students come from very disadvantaged and underprivileged areas and I’ve actually been to Eton or different costly non-public faculties to speak.
“What’s fascinating is that there does not appear to be any distinction within the incidence of self-harm.”
Horrible: Elsewhere within the podcast chat, Stephen admitted to making an attempt to commit suicide on the age of 17, admitting: “The very first thing I wished to do was take my life”
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