The actor, 28, said he wouldn’t change the struggle he faced during his childhood because they made him who he is today. When he was three-months-old, a car hit Jay Kontzle’s mother and his pram ploughed into a shop window. At four-years-old, he lost his mum when she died in a car accident. The Emmerdale star was subsequently raised by his grandparents. “I was lucky I had someone to look after me,” he told this week’s OK! Magazine.
It’s made me who I am today
Jay Kontzle
“After my mum died and all the stuff that happened to me when I was young, I see stuff that happens now as not a big thing,” Jay said.
“If I lose a job or someone says something nasty about me, I don’t care because I’ve been through bigger, much worse things.
“I find it easier to overcome things.
“You’re going to go through bigger things when you lose someone or someone is ill,” the Emmerdale star continued. “People become too focused on the small stuff.
“Even when I had issues when I was really young, I wouldn’t take them away because it’s made me who I am today.
“Everyone has negative aspects of themselves, but if you can recognise the and overcome them, there is no point in changing who you are,” he told the
