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EastEnders' Max Bowden discusses struggle with 'relentless pain and anger' following death of best friend which left him 'unable to cope' after being axed from the soap


In 2021, he announced his 'heart is in bits' after he lost one of his 'oldest' friend's Luke Goodings to suicide.

In an Instagram update on Wednesday, the soap star read Hussain Manawer's emotional poem You May Have Died, But You Are Still Alive as he candidly discussed his struggle with grief and his 'personal journey.' The actor, who starred as Phil Mitchell's troubled eldest son Ben, was left him 'unable to cope' after he lost one of his 'oldest' friend's Luke Goodings to suicide and was later axed from soap In an Instagram update on Wednesday, the soap star read Hussain Manawer's emotional poem as he candidly discussed his struggle with grief and his 'personal journey'

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