Spencer Matthews
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And, um,
You know, if you're 35 years old or under in this country, the most likely thing to kill you is yourself.
Which is, when Claire Milford Haven, whose son was James, told me that on Untapped, I... It completely just... You would never think that, I don't think, anyway.
I would certainly have never guessed that the most likely thing to kill me is myself.
You'd almost certainly assume it was an illness or a road accident.
But it's
So the fact that that is a reality is such a shame because they are proof that it's preventable.
Not in all cases, obviously, but the majority of suicide cases they feel could be prevented if only men knew where to turn or who to talk to.
And another shocking stat is over 50% of men who kill themselves
didn't seek any help at all.
So didn't tell their loved ones, didn't tell their family, didn't tell their mum.
You know, it's just, I'm a father to two sons.
It's actually making me feel a bit emotional now.
I'm a father to two sons.
If one of my sons took their own life without ever talking to me about it, imagine the pain that you would feel.
It's, you know, that you weren't able to help.
You didn't even know about it.
So a lot of this goes on.
Somebody takes their own life every hour in this country, just about.
And the idea behind Project 7, I think, is that we want to raise funds to pay for the therapy, but we also just want to raise as much awareness as possible.