Jimmy Carr admits he ‘didn’t like his life’ during heartbreaking Alison Hammond interview
The episode goes out on Friday.
Jimmy Carr has admitted in an emotional BBC interview with Alison Hammond that he ‘didn’t like [his] life’ before his comedy career.
The TV host and funnyman, 52, is set to appear on the second episode of Alison Hammond’s Big Weekend, a new series hosted by the TV legend.
In each instalment, the This Morning presenter spends a ‘big weekend’ with a different celebrity – the first episode saw her sharing time with Perrie Edwards.
Now, in Friday’s second episode, it’s the turn of controversial comedian and quiz show host Jimmy Carr – prepare yourself for lots of iconic, signature laughter.
As well as talking about fatherhood and treating Alison to one of his comedy gigs, Jimmy also opened up about his mental health struggles during the 1990s.
‘I was a bit depressed in my mid-20s,’ he told the Bake Off host. ‘I didn’t like my life, I didn’t like where it was going. I left everything to become a comedian to tell jokes above a pub.’
Alison says her mum ‘would have loved’ Jimmy’s comedy (Picture: BBC Studios)Offering supportive words, Alison replied: ‘My mother would have loved you. She was larger than life in every sense. She was very funny in a way that I’m not.’
Reflecting on his own late mum, Nora, Jimmy revealed that she sadly died of pancreatitis when he was only 28, shortly before falling out with his father.
He told Alison: ‘I was very close to my mother, so her dying was the worst thing I could imagine. When I was a kid, I had this separation anxiety of something happening to her.
‘I didn’t like where it was going. I left everything to become a comedian to tell jokes above a pub.’ (Picture: Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty)
