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Strictly's Shirley Ballas honours late brother David with moving tattoo tribute - 21 years after his tragic death
The Strictly Come Dancing judge's brother David died by suicide aged 44 in 2003, and the ballroom star, 64, has spoken openly in the past about how he struggled with depression .
The Strictly Come Dancing judge's brother David died by suicide aged 44 in 2003, and the ballroom star, 64, has spoken openly in the past about how he struggled with depression. Speaking on the Great Company with Jamie Laing podcast, Shirley told how her brother had been struggling with his mental health, and the family had previously tried to get him sectioned, but he wouldn't go to the hospital. You know, now, of course, I'm much more educated, and that's what was so great about Strictly, I love the job, but the platform it gives you to help people you know, and we get wrapped up in our own life, but if I don't hear from a friend or I think somebody's struggling, I then stop everything I'm doing, and then I will go around and sort of do my best to try to check in.
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