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Stephen Fry: “Lost, alone and I wanted to take my life”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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I was a deeply difficult child, and my parents sent me to a psychiatrist when I was 14. When you were 55, it was your third suicide attempt. Steven vanished on Monday, leaving a number of letters for friends. But what do I need to know about Steven Fry's earliest years to understand the man that sat in front of me? Well, to use the language of the time, I was a disruptive, deeply difficult, screwed up child. That's kind of the language they used then. And I would probably, in later years, have been diagnosed as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. As far as you can be from home there, my parents were in Norfolk on the east
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