'I contemplated suicide loads of times': Jodie Marsh breaks down on television as she talks of being bullied at school

By Sarah Bull


Emotional: Jodie Marsh broke down on This Morning today as she recalled how bullies nearly drove her to commit suicide at secondary school


She's spoken previously about her difficulty when she was bullied during her time at secondary school.

But the pain of the bullying is still very raw for Jodie Marsh, who broke down in tears on live television this morning when she recalled she was nearly driven to suicide by the constant teasing at her school.

Jodie, who admitted she was 'terrified' when girls began kicking footballs at her head, made the admissions ahead of her Channel 5 documentary, Bullied: My Secret Past.


She said: 'My bullying at school changed my life. I only do what I do now because of being bullied. I decided to become a model to prove to my bullies that I wasn't ugly.

'After I broke my nose in a hockey accident, they started picking on my nose and then I got called ugly and big nose, dodgy nose and all sorts of things right the way through secondary school.

'By the end of my time secondary school I didn't have a single friend there. I was a complete loner at school. I used to go and hide in the library at lunchtimes.'


Struggling: Jodie spoke about her trouble with bullies ahead of a new documentary that will be airing on Wednesday night

Overcome: Jodie struggled to control her emotions during the interview on the ITV programme

When Phillip Schofield asked her if she had ever thought about taking her own life, Jodie struggled to compose herself before answering - breaking down in tears as she recalled the desperate times.

She said: 'I contemplated suicide loads of times. I wanted to be a vet and I would have gone off to university and done that and that was my plan in life.

'And I was 15 years old when I wrote in my diary that I was going to be a model and prove these bullies wrong - I'd made my mind up at 15.'

Smiling through: Jodie had appeared in good spirits as she arrived at the ITV studios this morning for her interview

And Jodie added that despite her tears, she is feeling much happier about things.

She said: 'I still get abuse now on my own social networking sites, but I'm actually the happiest I have ever been in life.'

Jodie, 33, also revealed that making the documentary was incredibly important for her.

Asked if she had hesitated when asked to do the documentary, Jodie said: 'I didn't hesitate at all. I've wanted to make this show for 10 years because it's so important.'


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