Phillip Schofield candidly spoke about 'dark times' he's been through during a tearful interview with Shirley Ballas on This Morning, when the Strictly judge opened up about her brother committing suicide.
Shirley, who has been head judge on the BBC dancing show since 2016, wrote in her best-selling autobiography Behind The Sequins about her sibling David taking his own life 20 years ago at the age of 44. She shared how she is still dealing with the tragic events decades later, as she joined Phillip and co-host Holly Willoughby in the This Morning studio.
Wiping away tears, Shirley explained: "Everybody loved him. He was a big brother. He was like a father. He was everything to me. We talked every day at four o'clock. He was really the last person that I would ever think would take his own life."
