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Alcohol made my brother a monster and I threw him out a week before his suicide – I couldn’t save him, says Will Young

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BORN just minutes apart, singer Will Young and his twin brother Rupert shared an unbreakable bond. They looked and sounded alike — but Will became a household name after winning Pop Idol in 2002, while Rupert once joked he only had the nerve to sing “after a few beers”.

And their lives took completely different paths. Will is an award-winning chart star but his brother Rupert tragically took his own life nearly two years ago after a long battle with depression and alcohol addiction.

Now Will, 43, is speaking out for the first time since the death of his twin in a Channel 4 documentary which airs tomorrow night.

He tells how a previous suicide attempt left Rupert watching him perform from the Pop Idol audience in 2002 with his wrists dripping with blood, and how drink turned him into a “monster”.

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