Roman Kemp

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Are you ok? It’s a question that’s often worth repeating with the people we love. Capital Breakfast Show host Roman Kemp lost his best friend and radio producer to suicide in 2020, and is now more adamant than ever that we must keep asking our friends and family if they’re really ok.

In this chat with Fearne, Roman explains why he feels it’s important to share both his ongoing grief, and stories of his own mental health with the nation each day. They also talk about why it’s important to be bold about using the word suicide; in naming it, we’re more able to do something about it.

Roman’s book, Are You Really Ok? is out now.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains frank chat about suicide throughout, so do take care while listening.

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0:00.0	Before we start, this episode contains a lot of chat you might find difficult to hear,
0:05.6	so do check the show notes for more details.
0:09.7	Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and today I'm chatting to Roman Kemp.
0:16.2	Be the hero to your friend, you know, that I wasn't, right? And what I mean by that is
0:21.2	your friends are the best that wear a mask. Can you go to bed at night safely saying
0:26.2	I know exactly how that person is feeling because what happens is the people that end up
0:30.4	taking their own life is it's the people it's all like a tear in through this whole thing was
0:35.2	it's the last person you'd expect, last person you'd expect. When does person that you last
0:38.9	expect become the person that you most expect? You probably know Roman as the brilliant host of the
0:44.2	capital breakfast show. His job is all about being super energetic and fun to help wake the
0:51.0	country up in the morning, which he does absolutely brilliantly. But in 2020, his producer and best
0:59.2	friend Joe died suddenly by suicide and Roman made the incredibly powerful decision to share his
1:06.8	ongoing grief with the nation. He made a documentary called Roman Kemp, our silent emergency,
1:14.3	and now he's written a book, are you really okay? Both of which saw him talking about the fact
1:20.1	that he himself came close to attempting suicide after living with depression since he was a teenager.
1:27.2	Roman actually hadn't seen a copy of his book yet when he came round to my house a couple of weeks
1:32.3	ago, so I got to show him his own book, which was bizarre and wonderful. I just loved this chat
1:41.6	with Roman and I've been thinking about a lot of what he said since and how I might implement
1:47.8	big conversations at home. It is a tough listen at times, but there are so many vital and hopefully
1:55.6	very empowering things we can all take away from it. This episode of Happy Place is brought to you by
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