HOLLYOAKS' actor Adam Rickitt has revealed his personal link to the depression storyline on the popular soap. Adam, 41, plays Kyle Kelly on the E4 soap and was the first to notice on the show that his best mate Darren Osborne was suffering from depression.
Viewers celebrated the raw storyline and congratulated the soap for tackling such a serious topic. But now Adam has revealed the storyline hits really close to him because of "stuff in [his] own life".
He said that experience has lead to him being "well versed" to deal with the storyline. The actor told TV Life: "Mental health’s something I’ve been campaigning about for over 20 years.