Jamie Dornan has revealed he battled depression and turned to alcohol after his mum died and four friends died in the space of a few years.
The actor, 36, was only 16 when his mother Lorna died from pancreatic cancer.
He then lost four of his friends in a car crash one year later.
Speaking to Jay Rayner on his podcast Out To Lunch With.., Jamie said he is “still dealing” with both tragedies.
“Yeah my mum died when I was 16 that was obviously a life-altering, insane, horrendous thing to happen,” he admitted.
“Then four of my mates killed themselves in a car crash when I was 17.
“I had a very rough couple of years that I guess I’m still dealing with both of [those] things today, every day.”
The Fifty Shades of Grey star said that he turned to alcohol to deal with the trauma.
“But I guess they were very acute still then, and I drank a lot of everything but I had this summer where I’d go out a lot, drink, not really achieve anything.”
The father-of-three said it wasn’t until he was doing an interview years later, that he realised he was depressed.
“I had a summer, I dropped out of university and I was doing a marketing degree and no interest in any aspect of marketing, and I thought ‘Well f**k this, I’m going to leave.’
“I remember having this idea that I wanted to change and I knew I wasn’t on the right path and I needed to do something else, and I got into an interview once and I was explaining what I got up to that summer, and the interviewer goes ‘So you’re depressed’ and I was like ‘Oh s**t yeah.’
“I’d never seen it that way but I must have been depressed,” he admitted.
