Apparently nurses say this happens quite a lot. Was it difficult seeing such a personal song become so associated with Christmas? I remember the record company telling me it was going to be a hit. It was supposed to be a secret song on the album that no one was really going to know about.
But boy, was it made public. I mean, me and my family hear it every year now. How did you deal with its initial success in ? So it generally was just another thing that felt like that. How intense was being in East 17 back in the day?
Did you have loads of fans waiting outside your house every day? But at least we were successful. We did have fans waiting outside the house; you almost had to step over them to get anywhere.
But I always made sure I chatted to the shy ones at the back because that would have been me. Do you miss being a pop star? If someone asks me to perform or to do something [in music], it depends what the incentive is. Thirty years have elapsed and Ollie never got to know what it is like to have a family or travel the world. I even lost a friend last year. Tony has battled with depression and panic attacks himself. In East 17, he felt the pressure of having to write hit after hit and started drinking heavily.
Doctors eventually diagnosed depression. They could be triggered by the demands of performing, touring or being overtired. They say that anxiety is worrying about the future and depression is worrying about the past. But I feel blessed to be in there. Brian was sacked for boasting about drug-taking in the wake of the ecstasy-related death of teenager Leah Betts and has had his own struggles.
We all have families and life gets busy. For me, it's an incredibly sad song. And I was like 'You ain't releasing that'. Earlier this month, Mortimer opened up about his brother's death and said he had 'no control' over the song once he had recorded it. Speaking on This Morning, the year-old said: "It was a very delicate album track that was never to be released, ever, but people liked it and I said: 'No, you can't release that because it's kind of a personal one'.
He went on: "My brother committed suicide a couple of years before and I used that as the muse to write a song about loss.
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