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Melanie Sykes admits she once contemplated taking her own life as a 'relief' to her pain and heartache


Melanie Sykes has revealed how she once contemplated taking her own life, as a release from her pain and psychological turmoil.

Melanie also describes how she enjoys solo worshipping sessions in empty churches, where she can weep in private, in the absence of the priest and the congregation. Discussing social attitudes towards death and dying, the mother-of-two describes herself as a spiritual person, who prefers to embrace, rather than push away the inevitable. Born in Lancashire, Mel came to fame in a 1996 TV advert that showed her serving Boddingtons Bitter from an ice cream van.

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