This Morning Denise: I saved suicide caller

This Morning Denise: I saved suicide caller

THIS Morning agony aunt Denise Robertson has described how she helped save a woman who tried to commit suicide during a radio phone-in.

Denise, who has been dishing out advice from the This Morning sofa for more than 20 years, told Desert Island Discs host Kirsty Young it made her realise the “responsibility” of being an agony aunt.

Speaking on today’s show on Radio 4, she said: “That was one of the scariest moments of my life. I’m doing a phone-in and this voice comes through, ‘I have taken a lethal dose of pills. I can’t go on’.

There’s a baby crying in the background and she said, ‘I’m not going to tell you where I am until I know it’s too late for you to do anything but then I want you to come and take my baby’.”

Denise explained how her boss tracked down the woman’s doctor who persuaded the woman to change her mind.

She said: “That was the moment when the fearful responsibility of being an agony aunt really hit me for the first time.”