Michael Ball

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277 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 26 Mar

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Joe Marler Will See You Now · Michael Ball and Joe Marler Get INTIMATE · 26 Mar 2026 podcast

I suddenly developed anxiety and panic attacks and would find myself on stage not being able to breathe.

I don't know if you've ever experienced them.

And having come from nowhere, having been supremely confident to suddenly having this where you're that body outside that looking at yourself going, you don't know what you're doing.

You don't know what the next words are.

You're going to cut this up for everybody.

So that you then have the fight or flight and you're clinging onto a chair.

That would turn to be getting onto the tube to go into work and having to get off and come home and call in sick.

So I left the show.

I mean, it was huge.

It was the biggest show going.

And I just said, I can't do this.

No.

They just thought, he's lost it.

I had a breakdown.

And he's lost it.

And what a shame.

But Cameron, God bless him, the producer, also was a producer of Phantom.

So I left for nine months.

And he said to me, right, we're recasting Phantom, the role of Raoul.

There are three leads in Phantom.

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