“He came and got me in the car and that’s just when I started crying and that was the real game-changer for me. It was all of the tears I had from when I was probably five.
“All of that pressure I put on myself, in my eyes, was a weakness, I have never been vulnerable in front of another man, full stop.
“But when I came out of it, it was basically the rebirth of me and I needed to do that to find myself.”
Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51 is available on BBC iPlayer.
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Published at Wed, 26 Jan 2022 22:57:02 +0000
Jay Blades opens up on overcoming breakdown ‘I was done with life’
