E185: 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

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 94 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.

Topics:

Early years
Racism
Your fathers illness
Social rejection from everyone
What would you have had to change inorder to not be sectioned?
The night you got sectioned
Being sectioned: Biology vs experiences
The time being being sectioned and back to acting
Opening up about your breakdown
Where are you now?
Why you?
Your production company
The last guests question

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I did everything that voice told me to do that night.
0:01.9	Had that voice to tell me to jump off,
0:03.6	Tim's bridge, I would have done it.
0:05.8	Please welcome David Hervor!
0:08.3	Preparl to Superstar,
0:09.6	I'm in Hitch, US drama,
0:10.9	Homeland, one of our most influential voices
0:13.6	on race and mental health.
0:16.2	I remember reading about a moment where you come home,
0:18.2	you find your father's typewriter
0:19.9	with one word written on that typewriter.
0:22.1	Just an illness.
0:23.3	I didn't quite know what it was,
0:24.2	but I knew something was off.
0:25.3	I hadn't seen Dad for a while.
0:26.6	In the morning I got up and my mom said,
0:28.5	don't go into the kitchen.
0:29.8	I think I was just like,
0:30.7	I was going to go to school at the hot door.
0:31.5	That night, that was where my mom told me that.
0:36.2	David Hervor was the first black actor to play his part.
0:41.2	The hostility that I was neck with
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