Neighbours left me in a ‘dark place’ and needing therapy – I became a monster, reveals soap icon Alan Fletcher
HE may have played nice guy Dr Karl Kennedy in Neighbours for 37 years, but Alan Fletcher has confessed that initially, the fame turned him into a monster.
The Aussie actor was forced to turn to therapy to get him through.
Alan said: ““I wasn’t a good person to be around. I became selfish and things became too much about me, me, me.
“I needed therapy to get through this dark period.
“My wife said to me: ‘You’re not in a good place, you require professional help’.”
The challenge began when Alan tried to juggle long hours on Ramsay Street with maintaining his passion project - a photography business.
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Ahead of the soap’s final episode on Friday, he added: “I love photography so much and hadn’t wanted to let the business I’d built up go, even after I’d landed the Neighbours job but in the end, I completely blew myself out and needed assistance.
“I had to get a level playing field back in my life - I needed to take a breath and think a little bit about where I sat in the world, in order to achieve some proportion.”
