Stephen Fry has admitted that he “may well” commit suicide in the future.
The actor and writer opened up about the bipolar disorder that he has battled for years in a candid interview with Sky 1’s In Confidence, broadcast last night (June 3).
Fry admitted: “The fact that I am lucky enough not to have it so seriously doesn’t mean I won’t one day kill myself. I may well.”
He has previously admitted that he contemplated taking his own life after receiving bad reviews for a West End play in 1995.
Elsewhere, Fry revealed the pressures of living life in the public eye. He said: “It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you. They want to touch the hem of the fame, not the hem of the person.
“You resort to not travelling on the tube or walking round the street any more and going in a big car with a driver. And people think, ‘oh, he thinks he’s so grand, doesn’t he? Well, no. I’d rather walk, sometimes I just can’t.”
Fry, who was recently cast in Peter Jackson‘s The Hobbit, continued: “I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.”