Leah Charles-King, a presenter on A Place in the Sun and former '90s girl group Kleshay singer, previously opened up about her years-long struggle with mental health. She experienced a series of distressing symptoms that led her to a point of despair, feeling suicidal and depressed. Despite being prescribed antidepressants by her GP, Leah found no relief.
In a desperate moment, she contemplated ending her life from an eighth-floor window, but was thankfully talked down by a friend. Two days later, she penned a desperate plea for help to her GP. Speaking to the Express, she recalled: "If I didn't get help today, I knew what I was going to do and so I wrote this note and I plucked up the last bit of strength that I had to go into what I believed was my final battle.
M&S bring back £22 'summer must-have' blouse ideal for holidays and everyday wear Leah has bipolar disorder, a mental health condition characterised by extreme mood swings ( Image: Getty Images) Despite being prescribed antidepressants by her GP, Leah found no relief ( Image: Channel Four Television Corporation) "I remember standing in this queue in tears - silent tears - and when I got to the front of the queue to reception, I just passed this note across the desk [saying] 'I'm suicidal and I need help now. If you send me home, I'm going to kill myself'. It was that blunt and obviously, it was all panic stations.
" The singer-turned-property-guru was rushed to hospital by ambulance, only to discover that her strugg.
