Find out what Christopher Eccleston had to say about leaving Doctor Who September 16, 2019 - 15:42 BST Emmy Griffiths Doctor Who's Christopher Eccleston has opened up about his struggle with anorexia, which he admitted was "raging within" him during his turn as the Doctor back in 2005. Christopher played the first Doctor since the reboot of the popular sci-fi drop, just left after just one season.
He admitted that he only sought help ten years later, adding: "I was in a state of extreme anxiety, convinced I was either going to die or I was going to kill myself. In my despair I reached for my phone and looked up a psychiatric hospital, I rang ahead, grabbed my bag and ran. I was 100 per cent sure I was in the last few weeks of my life.
Previously speaking about quitting Doctor Who, Christopher told The Guardian: "What happened around Doctor Who almost destroyed my career. I gave them a hit show and I left with dignity and then they put me on a blacklist. I was carrying my own insecurities as it was something I had never done before and then I was abandoned, vilified in the tabloid press and blacklisted. I was told by my agent at the time, 'The BBC regime is against you.
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