Alastair Campbell
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Podcast Appearances
And you do this thing of saying, when somebody says to you, do you think you've got a problem?
You say, why are you saying that?
You're the one with the problem for asking that.
You turn it right back on them.
So I think he just had a way.
Maybe it was experience.
Maybe he'd been through that process lots and lots of times before.
Maybe just that he had found me at my rock bottom.
And he kind of opened it up.
He's such a nice guy.
And of course, I saw him quite a bit.
And then a few years later, I made a documentary about my breakdown for the BBC.
And this brilliant researcher, Judith Dawson, used to work for Sky.
She tracked him down in retirement.
And we had this meeting at his house where he was living.
And he said, you know what?
I've often wondered if it was you.
I've seen you, I've seen you.
Is that Alistair Campbell who I had back in 1986?
Well, there's no reason why he should have done.