Strictly’s Toyah Willcox reveals she was moments from taking her own life after being left ‘heartbroken’

STRICTLY Come Dancing prima Toyah Willcox has revealed however she came adjacent to ending her beingness astatine a notorious termination spot.

The histrion and punk fable was lone saved acknowledgment to the quick-thinking of a passing policeman.

The incidental unfolded erstwhile Toyah was surviving successful London successful her aboriginal 20s and was trying to marque it successful showbiz.

Recalling what happened, she said: “The way from my level took maine crossed a span truthful I grew accustomed to the presumption from the span astatine dawn.

"In those days determination was small postulation connected the roads astatine 5am. The span mesmerised me. I could recognize wherefore galore a lonely idiosyncratic had jumped from it.

“I contemplated jumping each clip I crossed it. Sometimes due to the fact that I was drunk and bolshie. But astir of the clip due to the fact that I was heartbroken.

"Back past loneliness and rejection were a large portion of my life.”

Writing successful her memoir Living Out Loud, Toyah said these feelings yet mushroomed into her trying to extremity her beingness 1 morning.

The 66-year-old prima revealed: “It was, astir 4.30am, the prima was rising connected the bridge.

"I’d spent the nighttime astatine a succession of parties. On the mode location I stood watching the presumption from the bridge. It ever made maine cry.

"I thought to myself, ‘What would it beryllium similar to jump?’. So, looking astir to marque definite the seashore was clear, I climbed the precocious railings and dared myself to jump.

“As I balanced connected the railings I thought of mum and dad, my member and sister and however they would feel. It would destruct them. I thought of ending each possibilities, and decided I didn’t ever privation to jump.  But by present it was excessively late.”

Explaining what happened next, Toyah went on: “Then, a manus grabbed my ankle. I astir fell forward.

"A dependable came, ‘Don’t bash it. Just don’t bash it’. I turned and it was a policeman. He was achromatic arsenic a sheet.

"Where helium appeared from I had nary idea. There was nary bicycle, nary car, nary footsteps. We talked for an hour…and parted friends.”

Toyah - calved with a twisted spine, a clubbed close ft and 1 limb shorter than the different - precocious spoke retired astir her wellness struggles and revealed she has suffered from crippling insomnia since she was conscionable 14.

In an interview, she discussed however her slumber issues started during her schoolhouse days, erstwhile she was nether unit to execute good successful exams.

She recalled: "I experienced the emblematic teenage accent that the unit of cramming for exams, and past sitting determination for hours connected extremity doing them brings.

Toyah is competing successful this year's Strictly Come Dancing alongside her nonrecreational spouse Neil Jones.

The celebrities and their partners took to the creation level for the archetypal clip past week, with Toyah and Neil performing a Tango.

Unfortunately, their attempts fell level with the judges and they lone received a people of 12. This placed them astatine the bottommost of the leaderboard.

Fans, however, were outraged and felt Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke had been unduly harsh.