Stephen Fry claims his husband of two years has become an “expert” in working with his mood swings — and being able to decide whether they’re natural or due to his ongoing mental health issues.
Fry has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and he opens up about his day-to-day life in a new movie for mental health initiative Heads Together, a project backed by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, and stars like Andrew Flintoff.
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Directed by comedian Simon Amstell, the movie features Stephen talking to his psychiatrist Bill about his various mental health issues, including his attempted suicide in 2012.
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Of the incident, Fry says:
“It had been very tough and something had been building up inside of me. I can recall talking out loud; ‘It’s pointless, it’s pointless’.
“Everything about my life had come to it’s end.”
“I find it very very difficult to look at myself. There are times when, having done the amount of TV and stuff I’ve done, there are times when I’m watching television and my ugly mug will pop up and I can see how unhappy I am.”
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Communicating with others wound up being “a strong part of the healing,” and he is particularly appreciative of husband Eliot Spencer, who he says has been unerringly patient and supportive since they married in January 2015.
“My best friend of all, my husband Elliot, he’s become very expert in detecting when my moods are more than just being annoyed because I’ve locked myself out of the house to a genuine fall in mood.”
h/t: Attitude
Jack Meoff
I’m sorry but whenever they report on Fry and his young husband I just can’t get past the ick factor to concentrate on the actual story.
natekerchel
Fry is a hypocrite. When I first went to UK i admired him for his defence of gay men. But I began to notice his sly attacks on certain groups of people. So I sat down one night and spent 6 hours watching a whole series of his quiz program. That is the only way you see the pattern of how he denigrates certain people consistently. His chosen target is usually people from Scotland – he implies that they are all uneducated drunks with strange voices, while trying to disprove that the Scottish people did not invent this or that. It is done so surreptitiously that you can only see it if you watch closely. He is a very arrogant man.
Heywood Jablowme
Q: Why do Scottish men wear kilts?
A: Because sheep can hear the sound of a zipper a mile away. (Drumroll, cymbal crash.)
Seriously, maybe his young husband is Scottish? They are money-grubbers, of course.
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Ksb1978
His husband looks more like his grandson.
sfhairy
husband is an ‘expert’ at monitoring his mental health – yep, and an ‘expert’ at monitoring your bank account.
surreal33
You took the words…
kevininbuffalo
I’m not a fan of Fry. Someone said that Fry is an uneducated persons idea of what an educated person sounds like. He’s as phony as a set of purple teeth.
Notright
I guess younger dating older is a thing now. Well this article sure seems to think so https://gayinternationaldating.com/younger-dating-older-thing-gay-community-now
Donston
It’s always been a “thing”. And you’re still spamming.