Clarke talked out of suicide
BBC 5 live. “I didn’t have my phone with me. Obviously I was lurking in the shadows, looking for, you know, this place and that place, trying to mind my own business.
“This car pulled up while I was sat in a park and a guy came over and said, ‘Oh, I thought it was you. You know your family’s looking for you?’
“I guessed as much but I didn’t know the extent of how far it had gone.
“This guy, sadly for him, his friend had killed himself a few days earlier and he said, ‘I thought this was you and I couldn’t go by without checking’, because he’d heard the state I was in and wanted to help.
“And I didn’t want his help, I didn’t want his help sat in the park, but this guy came and sat next to me and hugged me and cried on my shoulder, just urging me to get in touch with my family.”
The man called Carlisle’s pregnant wife Carrie, above, and put Carlisle on the phone. Mrs Carlisle said: “I heard his voice and it was literally like the best moment of my life, because I thought I’d never hear from him again. This wonderful gentleman stayed with him.”
She added: “It’s horrifying to realise that you’ve been engaging not with your husband but with an illness that manipulates the individual to the point where they feel they’re a burden. “We’re surrounded by love all the time but what I didn’t know is that he couldn’t feel that love. It was like he was living in a glass box. I judged a crisis by my own standards.
“What I thought was minor was literally the end of the world for Clarke and, if I could go back, I’d stop using my own mental framework as a reference.”
Father-of-three Carlisle spent three weeks in hospital and is recovering at home.
In December 2014 he tried to take his own life when he jumped into the path of a lorry on the A64 near York. ENGLAND Under-17s will again play with freedom when they take on Brazil in India today for a place in the World Cup final. The U17s are on course to emulate England U20s, crowned world champions in June. Winger Morgan Gibbs-White, left, feels nerves will play no part come kick-off in Kolkata. “We might have some before the game but not once it starts ,” said the Wolves starlet. “Us young boys, we play with freedom.”