In a video posted on Tuesday, George said: “I have never shared this story until now.<\/p>\n
“Two years ago, I sat on these stairs and thought about ending my life. In fact, I wanted to end my life.<\/p>\n
“I was so agitated that I was scared. I was scaring myself because I felt out of control,” he said.<\/p>\n
He said he then looked at his dog Rolo sat at the bottom of the stairs. <\/p>\n
“And I thought ‘I have to try and stay’ and so I gave myself an option, either I leave now or I go for a run.<\/p>\n
“And going on that run genuinely saved my life.”<\/p>\n
He said the run “lifted me just enough” so that when he came back he called a friend to ask for help. <\/p>\n
“And that phone call led on to the changes that mean that I’m still sat on these stairs in my flat today.<\/p>\n
“That is how close it came and the thing I reflect on is that no-one would have had a clue, looking before or even after, the crossroads that I was at,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a video posted on Tuesday, George said: “I have never shared this story until now. “Two years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-582377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}