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#6 Jonny Benjamin on how his struggles with his sexuality impacted on his mental health & why coming out was the best thing he's ever done
**Quite a lot of clipping on this interview so had to edit out most of the original interview-apologies. Will be sorted for series two.**
Jonny first came to the public’s attention in 2014 when he launched a campaign to find the stranger, who six years previously had talked him down from the edge of Waterloo Bridge, as he was about to take his own life. The campaign to find the good samartian soon went viral and a few weeks later Jonny was reunited with the man who saved his life, Neil Laybourn. A documentary which followed Jonny’s search and reunion with Neil was aired on Channel Four the following year.
Jonny is now a mental health campaigner, public speaker, documentary maker and vlogger. He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List in 2017 and has set up his own charity Beyond Shame, Beyond Stigma. He is also an author and his incredible first book The Stranger on the Bridge was released last year and included a foreword from none other than the Duke of Cambridge himself Prince William (link below).
When I met up with Jonny we chatted about;
Links
To buy Jonny’s book ‘Stranger on the Bridge’- https://amzn.to/3336rrK
Twitter & Facebook @mrjonnybenjamin
Jonny’s charity
https://beyondshamebeyondstigma.co.uk
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**Quite a lot of clipping on this interview so had to edit out most of the original interview-apologies. Will be sorted for series two.**
Jonny first came to the public’s attention in 2014 when he launched a campaign to find the stranger, who six years previously had talked him down from the edge of Waterloo Bridge, as he was about to take his own life. The campaign to find the good samartian soon went viral and a few weeks later Jonny was reunited with the man who saved his life, Neil Laybourn. A documentary which followed Jonny’s search and reunion with Neil was aired on Channel Four the following year.
Jonny is now a mental health campaigner, public speaker, documentary maker and vlogger. He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List in 2017 and has set up his own charity Beyond Shame, Beyond Stigma. He is also an author and his incredible first book The Stranger on the Bridge was released last year and included a foreword from none other than the Duke of Cambridge himself Prince William (link below).
When I met up with Jonny we chatted about;
Links
To buy Jonny’s book ‘Stranger on the Bridge’- https://amzn.to/3336rrK
Twitter & Facebook @mrjonnybenjamin
Jonny’s charity
https://beyondshamebeyondstigma.co.uk