Jake Humphrey
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I didn't process it until quite a lot later, so I only had therapy for it.
in my adult life, like years and years later.
And we went to Everest to try and find his body and we made that film, Finding Michael.
And I learned an awful lot about the mountain on the mountain and kind of just was able to let go of some of the pain when I was up there.
But I had a fair amount of therapy around...
his death and not really processing it as a kid.
I think death is quite an unusual thing to contend with as a child.
You know, I'm not sure.
It's obviously, you know, you watch The Lion King and stuff and it's a circle of life and it's all a part of living.
So I think you're just a little bit more...
Yeah, no, well, it definitely was, you know, it's...
you know, we don't talk about it too much anymore, but it's, um, it will have had a huge impact on my brother, James.
Obviously they were a year apart.
They were best friends.
You know, they grew up together, you know, in the same house all the time, lived together in London.
Um, so that, you know, I can imagine, I can only imagine it must've been harder for James than it was for me, obviously difficult for, for everyone in the family, but for him in particular, um,
you know i'm fortunate to come from a family where people have done difficult things around me all of the time you know like my mum raising a large family and my father always working always grinding he was a mechanic and then you know became a racing driver himself and then built businesses and
You know, I see my dad as a real, a huge inspiration of mine.
You know, I still bounce stuff off.
He's 83, as I say, and he's absolutely sharp.