She became a household name after she won the battle of the boardroom to be crowned Lord Alan Sugar’s second ever The Apprentice winner in 2006.
But away from the cameras, Michelle Dewberry was fighting a private struggle with depression that became all-consuming and saw her try to take her own life in 2012.
Now the 37-year-old star has decided to speak exclusively to MailOnline about her mental health troubles, which began when she was a teenager.
Michelle hopes that by speaking out she can help crush the stigma associated with mental health problems.
She reveals it was the thought of adding to her mother’s grief that stopped her from ending it all.
Her family had already lost her elder sister, Fiona Kaye, who was just 19 when she plunged 70ft to her death from a tower block in West Hull in 1996, when Michelle was 16.
Taking about when she found herself at her lowest ebb, she said: ‘I just did not want to be alive. I had this constant absolute certainty that I just wanted to die.
