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"Brian Conley has spoken for the first time about his exit from I&amp;#039;m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! The comedian was forced to leave the ITV reality show prematurely earlier this week, shortly after being filmed breaking down in tears following a clash with David Haye.  Conley explained that he had suffered from malnutrition and exhaustion during his time in the jungle, while he also stopped taking anti-depressant tablets after 15 years. He said that because he had agreed to take the pills, producers were legally required to ask him to leave the jungle on medical grounds. &amp;quot;Two days after six days of not eating, I didn&amp;#039;t have antidepressants,&amp;quot; he told Daybreak. &amp;quot;They said if I did not comply with these regulations, then I would not be on the show. &amp;quot;I started feeling really bad, and very shortly after that I did have to leave. I found out I was malnutritioned and I was suffering from exhaustion, that&amp;#039;s what the doctor said. &amp;quot;They then sedated me for two days, they gave me a tablet that could knock out a horse and I woke up with a saline drip in my arm. I was thinking, &amp;#039;What on earth has happened here?&amp;#039; &amp;quot;All because of a fluffy show that Ant &amp;amp; Dec do. I can tell you it&amp;#039;s not fluffy out there, it&amp;#039;s the real world. It&amp;#039;s tough, real tough.&amp;quot;  Conley continued to say that his short stint on the show has helped improve his life, as he feels he no longer has to be on antidepressants. &amp;quot;I felt bad because it was out of my control, it was their decision,&amp;quot; he continued. &amp;quot;I couldn&amp;#039;t lie to them [about not taking them]. It got very serious when it got legally binding. I brought these tablets in, and I&amp;#039;ve got to take them. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve taken those for 15 years, I&amp;#039;ve had people say, &amp;#039;You probably don&amp;#039;t need them now&amp;#039;. I&amp;#039;m proud I stuck to my guns and I got through it, and it&amp;#039;s made me a much stronger man. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re looking at a man who doesn&amp;#039;t need antidepressants.&amp;quot; Speaking about his battle with depression, Conley said: &amp;quot;What I want to do now is publicise depression. I&amp;#039;ve touched it when my father died, it&amp;#039;s nothing to be ashamed of. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve needed help. The hardest job is making people laugh when your dad just died. I bottled it up for a year. I was self-medicating on alcohol. These kind of things happen in the real world. He added: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t regret it, I want to champion and be very much a part of helping people with depression.&amp;quot; Conley also said that he aims to return to panto for the Christmas season in the coming weeks, and that he is now feeling &amp;quot;fine&amp;quot;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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