“Losing someone to suicide and going through all this stuff, there’s not really much fun to have in that, it’s not a very fun time, but that’s not really me.
“I like having fun and laughing with people and so from the moment that this started happening and I started talking about mental health, I wanted it to be a fun conversation.
In 2018, whilst revising for his A-Level exams, the teen from Staplehurst, Kent, was left devastated when he tragically and unexpectedly lost his younger brother Sam to suicide.
Ben also discussed the ‘excruciating pain’ of losing a loved one to suicide and shared how he now uses humour to help communicate deeply traumatic messages.
The author, public speaker and change maker, who is on a mission to ‘improve education and support for everyone’, told Fearne: “I think [humour is] really important for me.
