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Tina Campbell

Springwatch’s Chris Packham discusses mental health and feeling suicidal: ‘It was like I got hit by a train’

Chris Packham has has revealed he once tried to end his own life after suffering a devastating loss.

The BBC Springwatch presenter, 62, has received death threats and vicious online trolling in the past, but says what hit him the harded was the death of his beloved dog.

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