SHERLOCK actor Rupert Graves said he took an overdose aged 15 due to “deep depression”. Despite playing handsome characters as an adult, he said he felt like a “big-handed, big-footed, misshapen-headed monster” as a teenager.
He told Big Issue magazine: “When I was about 15 I took an overdose to try to die. I remember my senses closing down. “I had a thought of, I think I’m going to die.
And I’m not even sure I want to die. Then I vomited so much I knocked myself out.” The actor, 57, who played Det Insp Lestrade in BBC’s Sherlock, grew up in Weston, Somerset.
He said: “If I could go back I’d probably just sit down and hold my younger self’s hand and say, ‘listen, it will pass’.” "And while you're waiting for it to pass, just try and be kind.
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