Broadcaster Ryan Tubridy sought therapy to help him cope with “really dark” feelings due to the intensity of criticism he received during the RTÉ payments scandal that precipitated his exit from the State broadcaster.
The former Late Late Show presenter said he “wasn’t in the whole of his health” after the crisis blew up in June 2023, following revelations that his remuneration had been secretly topped up over several years.
“It was heavy, heavy stuff,” he said this week in a wide-ranging interview at his Dublin home with The Irish Times.
“I was down, I was on the ground. I saw myself as a character in this story that I wasn’t writing.”
Mr Tubridy said he accepted…