Tommy Tiernan has opened up about the pain of losing his mother to suicide in 2010 – admitting the way she died wasn’t “a surprise” to him.
The comedian spoke honestly about the death of his mother Helen – revealing for the first time that she killed herself. The Navan man said: “So my mam basically took her own life in 2010 and what I think happened, definitely not with all suicides, but with some people… I think my mam, she obviously found things incredibly difficult.
“But she also lived at a strange distance from us, even though she was in the same house. There was a part of her that wasn’t comfortable or couldn’t cope with or didn’t want or wasn’t able for maybe – a better way of saying it – the kind of intimacy of family life.
