By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 23:19 BST, 13 May 2019 | Updated: 23:45 BST, 13 May 2019
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Veteran TV host Andrew Denton, 58, has spoken candidly about his private battle with mental health at the height of his career in 1990s.
Speaking to Mamamia's No Filter podcast this week, the Interview presenter revealed he was forced to put his career on hold in 1994 after almost suffering a mental breakdown.
'I had started a new two-nights-a-week live show at Channel 7. I was only probably about six weeks into it, and I had to step away. I was close to having a breakdown,' he confessed.
'I was close to having a breakdown': Veteran TV host Andrew Denton, 58, has spoken candidly about his private battle with mental health at the height of his career in 1990s
During the two weeks he was away from work, Andrew decided to seek professional help for the first time in his life.
'That was the first time I was introduced to medication, which doesn't solve your problem, it just gives you a ladder to climb out of the hole,' said the
