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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

David Harewood: The Chilling Story Of How A Hollywood Star Lost His Mind

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

David Harewood is an award-winning actor, star of Supergirl and Homeland, and best-selling author behind Maybe I Don’t Belong Here, one of the best-reviewed and best-selling books of 2021. One of the best actors of his generation, with honours from Queen Elizabeth to prove it, David’s road to the top had to overcome his psychosis, which at one point drove him to the point of insanity and left him sectioned into a psychiatric hospital. With his life as he knew it on the brink, David rebuilt his life and career to reach the very top of the entertainment business. Scars like this take time to mend, and sometimes leave unexpected traces. David is controversially honest that losing his mind, in a way, helped him find his creativity. This isn’t the message that everyone wants to hear, but David’s frankness about how his darkest times set him apart from everyone else is a story you don’t want to miss. Follow David: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3CLLi9F Twitter: https://bit.ly/3MmT5xQ David's book: https://amzn.to/3RI13m4 Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

I did everything that voice told me to do that.

0:01.9

Had that voice had told me to jump off Thamesbridge,

0:04.6

I would have done it.

0:05.8

Please welcome David Howard!

0:08.2

Prepel to Superstardom in Hitch US Drama Homeland.

0:11.4

One of our most influential voices on race and mental health.

0:15.2

I remember reading about a moment where you come home,

0:18.2

you find your father's typewriter with one word written on the typewriter.

0:22.1

She said illness.

0:23.0

I didn't quite know what it was, but I knew something was off.

0:25.0

I haven't seen dad for a while.

0:26.0

And then one morning I got up and my mom said,

0:28.0

don't go into the kitchen and go straight to school out the front door.

0:31.0

That night, that was where my mom told me that

0:33.4

dad had been.

0:36.4

David Herwood was the first black actor to play his part.

0:41.2

The hostility that I was met with as a young black actor was ferocious. Newspapers, reviews just dismissing me.

0:49.0

He looks more like Mike Tyson than Romeo. What's he doing on the stage? So I really did feel like I was an anomaly.

0:54.6

The whole thing, the stress, the smoke, the overthinking just ended up making me spiral.

1:00.0

That's what led to me just falling into psychosis.

1:03.0

I was lying in bed and I just heard this voice in my head.

1:07.0

He said he was Martin Luther King.

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