Stephen Fry has revealed that he became deeply depressed while filming a new TV series about prejudice against gay people across the world.
Stephen Fry: Out There - which begins on BBC Two on October 14 - sees the 56-year-old meeting gay people from other countries who have faced bullying over their sexuality, as well as some of their tormentors.
And he admitted that he can now identify the moment was hit by a 'wave of depression' during production - which ultimately led to him trying to take his own life.
"There was a moment in it where I recognised that this was the last moment we filmed before this wave of depression came over me and I was idiotic or victim enough or whatever one wants to call it, of this mad compulsion," Stephen explained.
"It seems mad now, because I'm on a course of medication for the first time in my life that really seems to be working, but at the same time I can recognise that moment.
"I won't say what it is, because I don't want people to look out for it," he added, "but of course it makes my heart sink a little.
"I think that's so odd because it's such a really wonderfully important part of the film."https://cms.whatsontv.co.uk/node/add/article
The QI presenter - who is president of mental health charity MIND - said that he was now feeling "much better" - although admitted he had questioned whether making the programme had prompted his subsequent suicide bid.
"I asked myself whether my attempt was triggered by, or at least reinforced by, the despair at the sheer weight of official homophobia I was experiencing at that particular point of filming," he confessed.
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