June Sarpong Breaks Down As She Opens Up About Brother Sam’s Suicide
June Sarpong has admitted that 2015 was the “worst year” of her life following the death of her brother, Sam Sarpong.
The TV star made her first appearance back on the panel of Loose Women since her 40-year-old brother committed suicide in California in October.
Revealing that none of the family even had an inkling that there was something wrong with Sam, June bravely shared her story as she spoke candidly to her co-stars Linda Robson, Jane Moore, and Andrea McClean.
The emotional star said: “It’s horrible, I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. I mean it’s been such a tough time for my family and I. 2015 was the worst year of our lives, like the worst, nobody could ever have predicted this.
“He’d given no signs, we were shell-shocked, this is the person that you would never associate this with. In a world full of seven billion people, I feel so blessed to be able to say that my favourite person in the world was my brother.
“I mean he was so good. He was such a kind human being who just loved people and who treated everybody the same and was the life and soul of the party and whenever you had a problem he was the guy you turn to.
“The thing that really sort of brought it home to us, just how loved he was, was at his memorial, over 2,000 people turned up to celebrate his life.”
June and her family were told by American police who tried to talk Sam off the bridge that he jumped from that Sam had been hallucinating before his death.
The 38-year-old added: “This was a happy guy. He wasn’t on medication, he doesn’t even drink. All we know that on the day it happened, something just took over his mind.
“So the Sammy that we knew was not that boy on the bridge, the person that jumped off the bridge was not the man that we had loved for over 40 years. It was a moment of madness.
“Something just went off and he lost complete control over his mind… The police wouldn’t let my father up there. For seven hours he was up there… he was completely hallucinating.
“He was not there. He was not in charge of his faculties.”
June has been praised on social media for telling her heartbreaking story.
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