OHMYGOSSIP — Nick Frost thinks the key to finding happiness is “simpler than [he] thought”.
The 48-year-old actor attempted suicide when he was 17 and has admitted to battling depression for years, but he doesn’t want his personal struggles to have a detrimental impact on the people around him.
He explained: “I think things for me can be fixed. It would be unfair to my children to use that idea as an excuse to be a poor father or poor person.
“After all the years of being depressed and thinking so much about everything, I’ve found that maybe it’s simpler than I thought it would be. There are things I can do that bring it back to the moment, and I’m that much happier.”
Nick admits the onus is on himself to resolve his issues.
The ‘Hot Fuzz’ star told The Independent: “I’ve always been trying to make people happy, and always imagined that if I can make you happy, I’ll be happy, but that never came. It has to come from me.
“If someone had said to me 18 years ago that the key to being happy was just to worry about living right now, I’d have laughed you out of the boozer.”
The comedy star – who has been teetotal for four years – admits that the death of his dad proved to be a major turning point in his life.
Nick explained that it prompted him to approach his life in a totally different way.
He said: “We had f*** all growing up, but I never thought about it.
“It’s another thing about being blinkered in your life, wanting to be a child forever. When my dad died, and I had no parents, that was the first time I realised I was utterly alone, and I couldn’t phone my dad to ask for a tenner or ask him for advice.
“That’s when I thought, ‘I’m a man.’ I wanted someone to take care of me, to look after me, but once he died I was like, ‘OK, I need to look after myself.'”
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