Overview

• On Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast, Woodall said there was nothing she could have done to stop Johnny Elichaoff’s decision to die by suicide in 2014.
• She praised “fabulous” charities working in mental health and suicide prevention, noting suicide is the leading cause of death among UK men under 50.
• Woodall described how a decade of earlier drug use shaped her resilience by forcing her to confront life’s challenges from a young age.
• She recounted using grief expert Julia Samuel’s advice to explain her ex-husband’s death to then-11-year-old daughter Lyla as “a heart attack in his head.”
• The candid interview has renewed public conversation on the limits of personal responsibility in suicide prevention and the importance of professional and community support for bereaved families.