Kicking Television

13 Jan

18:48 pm

daveholmes:

spytap:

skeskali2:

After I read this, I wanted to give myself a hug. So I did.

sheatsb:

twloha:

In 2006, actor Stephen Fry received a letter from a girl struggling with depression. This was his response.

This is why Stephen Fry is one of my heroes.

A fantastic human being.

You’ve probably seen this, but you also probably can’t see it enough.

When Stephen had his mental breakdown in 1995 and went missing for a while, I found his email address and wrote to him. Told him how I supported him and hoped he’d find his way. I mentioned that I was once in the front row of a studio audience for “A Bit of Fry and Laurie”, and in between takes, he stared and me and smiled. He wrote back and said, and I paraphrase, “Perhaps it’s because I could tell you were such a lovely person…” This was during one of the darkest moments of his life. He left a play on the West End. He had been hospitalized and laid low for a while. So, this email from my idol, across the ocean, when email was a new-ish thing, was a ray of Fry sunshine beaming out from the eye of his storm. It’s another reason to adore the lovely Mr. Fry. A Humanist and sweet man if ever there was one.

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  and this is why Fry is a wonderfully,” fine and fluffy and moist and sticky and lovely” person.
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  So much love for Stephen Fry right now.
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  my heart just melted.
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  I didn’t thin I could love him more!
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  This is one of the many reasons why Stephen Fry is awesome.
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  I haven’t seen Steven Fry in a single frikkin thing but this just made me a fan
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  this man so much. Why does he have to be 55 years old, gay, and across the world. Sigh…
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