Jimmy Carr breaks silence on his mental health struggle

Jimmy Carr recently got candid and opened up about his mental health.

On Alison Hammond’s new interview show, Big Weekend, the 52-year-old Irish-British comedian and presenter spent a weekend with her, where he can be seen enjoying a boat ride and hiking.

Then the 50-year-old British television presenter and actress took Carr to one of his tour performances in Kendal.

Getting candid with her, he shared that he was “a bit depressed in my mid-20s. I didn't like my life, I didn't like where it was going. I left everything to become a comedian to tell jokes above a pub.”

Moving forward, Alison inquired the Fackham Hall star about his best friend and Eight Out Of 10 Cats co-star Sean Lock’s passing.

Answering the question, Carr quipped, “It's a weird thing where you know it's coming but it's still shocking. I got sent all of the best bits of Sean and they all had me in them. It's a very privileged position.”

He went on to talk about the death of his mother, Nora, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer, in his mid-twenties.

The Distraction star shared, “She was depressed for a lot of my childhood… Making her happy made me happy, so the compulsion to be funny came from that.”

Reflecting on her death, he admitted, “I was very close to my mother, so her dying was the worst thing I could imagine. When I was a kid, my fear was this sort of separation anxiety of something happening to her.”

“When it happens, there's a weird freedom, where that's happened and I'm still here. It got across to me what mortality really is.”

“This is it, this is your life, you don't get another go, so do what you want to do,” Jimmy Carr stated.