Composer tells of his suicide pain

COMPOSER and theatre supremo Andrew Lloyd Webber has revealed a battle with depression which led him to consider suicide.

The multi-millionaire behind some of the world’s favourite musical reveals in his memoirs Unmasked that he contemplated killing himself as recently as three years ago.

Lloyd Webber says he was 15 when he first thought about suicide after becoming “deeply depressed” about his piano teacher mother’s infatuation with another pianist’s talents.

More recently, he almost succumbed to the turmoil brought on by a diagnosis of prostate cancer and bouts of severe back pain.

He said: “I did think of suicide. It was so painful and I couldn’t sleep and you go on thinking about it.”

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