Linda Robson stopped recording the audiobook of her autobiography as a segment about her being put on suicide watch made her weep.
Linda Robson stopped recording the audiobook of her autobiography as a segment about her being put on suicide watch made her weep
The 66-year-old ‘Loose Women’ regular, who has battled alcoholism and severe depression during her six-decade acting and presenting career, is now enjoying life but has admitted one section of her memoir tackling her mental health battle was so traumatising to read aloud it moved her to tears.
She was quoted in the Daily Mirror saying: “The depression and the suicide watch I was on was really hard, especially when I recorded the audio.
“I had to stop because I was crying my eyes out. They told me to go and sit down and have a nice cup of tea and then come back afterwards and I did.”
Linda has now beaten the blues and been four years sober, but was afflicted with depression in 2018 when she had a breakdown and went to rehab.
She added about turning to Alcoholics Anonymous for help: “I met two people today who I went to AA with before.
“I used to go there all the time, for a year. One of them is now 20 years sober, and he asked me how long I’ve been sober and I told him, ‘It’s been four years since I’ve had a drink.’
“It was really nice to see him as well. They’re doing really well.”
Linda has told Bella magazine about giving up booze: “I think you have to keep yourself busy. If you’re sitting at home, which I was doing for two years, practically, in the house, and someone had to stay with me all the time. You have to keep yourself busy and find things to do.”
Linda’s book also tells how she shot to fame as a child actress before making it big alongside her long-term friend Pauline Quirke, 64, when they starred together as wives of jailed gangsters in the BBC sitcom ‘Birds of a Feather’. She has also been a panellist on ITV’s daytime chat show ‘Loose Women’ since 2012, and her ‘Truth Be Told: Tales from a Baggy Mouth’ autobiography came out in February.
Linda added about her book: “There’s obviously a lot about depression, but I wanted there to be lots of nice stuff also. I always say that I am an ordinary woman, but extraordinary things have happened to me.”
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