- Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal has detailed the events leading up to his being sectioned in November 2023.
- He started exhibiting manic behaviour, including talking rapidly for hours, an obsession with scientific theories, sleep deprivation, and hallucinations, he said.
- After Blumenthal showed his wife a drawing of a gun he had hallucinated, she contacted authorities, leading to police and firefighters arriving at their home to take him to the hospital.
- Blumenthal was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and spent two weeks in a psychiatric hospital, followed by six weeks of psychiatric sessions.
- His documentary about his mental illness, Heston: My Life with Bipolar, will air on BBC Two on 19 June.
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