The Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick joins BBC Breakfast for a candid interview on how he hopes he can help people "find a way out of darkness on those dark days." In an extremely personal interview with presenter Victoria Fritz, Noel opened up about how he had been running from the "spectre" of "prolonged sexual abuse" as a child and hopes he can help anyone going through the same thing, sharing how animals have had a positive impact on his life, particularly in difficult times.
While opening up about what inspired him to write the deeply personal book 'Beyond Supervet: How Animals Make Us the Best We Can Be', he shares that there are three main points, first he wanted to highlight where veterinarians are as a profession, secondly to highlight how people love their animals and finally to share his truth, which he added: "I hope it gives them light."
The 54-year-old shared that after the passing of his mother and dog, he decided it was "really important to tell the truth." He added: "I think we're at a real crossroads with medicine and also I got to crossroads in my personal life as well, in the sense that I was harbouring a lot of challenges from my childhood that I had seen other people go through and I felt if somebody in the public eye, somebody like me, who you think is on the television, he's the 'supervet', he's doing all right, he's got it sorted - if those teenagers that are having troubles see that actually I don't have it all sorted, I'm just a bloke trying to do his best, then it might help them."
