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‘The strongest thing I ever did was ask for help’ ❤

Scarlett Moffatt chats about her experience visiting her local @samaritans branch in Durham and how the charity helped her for #WorldSuicidePreventionDay 👇 trib.al/fEh5bfq

Sitting around a table as she chats to a group of people, Scarlett Moffatt leans forward to say something.

🗣️ ‘I don’t think of you as ordinary people you could pass in Asda, I think of you as little angels,’ she tells them. ‘I don’t know what I’d have done without you.’

Although they all laugh and brush aside her words, Scarlett really means what she’s saying, as without people like them, she might not be here today.

Every 10 seconds, Samaritans respond to a call for help. In 2017, Scarlett was one of those callers.

Three years earlier she’d shot to fame on Gogglebox in 2014, after successfully auditioning as a favour for a friend who was looking for someone from the north east.

‘We got Twitter so we could chat to people while it was on. Immediately, I started getting really horrible messages about how ugly, fat and stupid I was,’ Scarlett has said of her experience before.

‘All of a sudden, all of these people who didn’t even know me were forming opinions about me. It hit me hard.’

Over the next three years, Scarlett’s showbiz career soared as she won I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, and appeared on Saturday Night Takeaway.

But the online abuse worsened, with her being attacked over anything from the way she dressed to the way she spoke.

Things became especially bad when she released her exercise DVD in 2016. Trolls told her she had gone too far, was too thin and was a bad role model.

Find out how Scarlett found solace in having an ear to hear her after reaching out to the @samaritans ❤👇 trib.al/fEh5bfq