Stephen Fry admits living in fear of having another nervous breakdown after prostate cancer op

STEPHEN Fry has revealed that he lives in fear of having another nervous breakdown.

The comic, 60, has a long running battle with mental illness, after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder aged 37, and has attempted suicide several times.

He said: “There was and still is, and I still feel it occasionally, a danger of becoming sort of professionally mentally unstable, that that’s what I am, that’s who I am.

“It’s a condition I live with. I’m always prepared to talk about it, but there’s also a danger, because I do live with this condition.”

Speaking to Fearne Cotton on her Happy Place podcast he added: “I’m not going to kid myself that it’s cured, because it isn’t, that if I keep picking at the scab, it’s not going to be good for me.

“It’s going to be good for my mental health.”

It comes a month after Stephen revealed that he has been fighting prostate cancer via a 13-minute video posted on his website.

He told fans the “aggressive little bugger” had been caught early and he was awaiting test results to confirm he is cancer-free.