'I didn't want to die': Mick Finnegan tells Tommy Tiernan about wanting to take his life 

The Tommy Tiernan Show host was also joined by retired newsreader Anne Doyle and artist Gottfried Helnwein
'I didn't want to die': Mick Finnegan tells Tommy Tiernan about wanting to take his life 

Mick Finnegan: 'I didn't deal with the trauma that I experienced as a child.'

A mental health advisor told The Tommy Tiernan Show about his experience of homelessness and the suicidal thoughts he had after he was sexually abused as a child.

Mick Finnegan said he was abused from the age of 12 and ended up living on the streets. He moved to the UK and said the moment he tried to take his own life on a bridge in London was when his life changed.

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