The Yorkshire Vet star Grace Olson details harrowing moment she attempted to take her own life
ok.co.ukGrace Olson, star of The Yorkshire Vet, has bravely opened up about her teenage suicide attempt, revealing that a relentless bully "filled her life with fear".The TV personality shared the harrowing experiences she endured as a child, explaining how she was mercilessly targeted by a classmate from the age of seven to 14.
Despite being popular in school, Grace struggled to win over one particular girl who she had tried hard to impress. Speaking to The Yorkshire Post, Grace revealed: "I was a very sensitive person...I was one of the most popular people in the school and had loads of friends but a girl at school just didn't like me, and I was so soft-natured that I wanted to appease her. "My mother was amazing and very loving but overprotective.
I wasn't taught how to stand up for myself and I was filled with fear every morning before school." Now 50, Grace confessed that due to her sensitive nature, she found it difficult not to internalise the bully's cruel words.
She recalled waking up with a sense of dread each morning, feeling she had no other option but to end her life. After coming home from school one day, Grace says she "swallowed a whole bottle of painkillers and went upstairs to my room to lie down to die." Grace courageously opened up about the moment she reached breaking point, sharing: "It was like I snapped.
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