Dynamo credits boxer Tyson Fury with stopping him from killing himself after breakdown which saw magician collapse unconscious in his dog’s bed

Dynamo has credited Tyson Fury with inspiring him after the magician attempted suicide.

Entertainer Dynamo, 41, real name Steven Frayne, hit rock bottom and attempted suicide in November 2020 after a series of personal problems.

His wife Kelly Frayne was terrified when she found him unconscious in the dog basket at their home.

The star explained on the Great company with Jamie Laing podcast: ‘So on November 6, 2020, I tried to commit suicide. I just exploded.

‘I rammed myself into everything in front of me in my house, stuck my head through doors, through mirrors, but kept banging because I was trying to block out the noise in my head.

‘I wanted to feel something. It’s weird. When I did all this I definitely felt pain, but I didn’t feel anything else and my wife actually found me on the floor.

“I actually sat in the dog bed and in front of one of the mirrors that I had stuck my head through and came out bleeding and fresh.

“I think waking up like that was the most shameful experience I’ve ever felt. The shame was different because when I did it, I didn’t think about anyone else, I only saw a reflection on myself and I hated what I saw.

“I had all this noise, all this pressure in my head and I didn’t know how to turn it off, so I just tried to knock it out of me and I ended up punching my own lights out.”

Dynamo said the first thing he saw when he regained consciousness was his sobbing wife looking down at him and his dog sitting next to him.

The artist said he found hope in hearing about other people’s struggles and how they got themselves through tough times.

He was inspired by boxer Tyson, 35, who has a long history of anxiety and depression, bipolar disorder, substance abuse and thoughts of suicide.

Dyamo said: “To be honest, it started with Tyson Fury. When he shared his struggle publicly. He’s someone who, as a northerner, as someone from the lower classes, I can relate to much more than a therapist.

“So when I saw him open up, and he’s such a great alpha male, as a boxer, he’s someone who would never reveal his weaknesses to his opponents, but what does he do? He does the opposite. He just throws them all out there, and it makes him more untouchable.

“I took inspiration from him and started creating magic around the inspiration he gave me.

“I want to show him that magic and I want to talk to him about what he inspired in me, in the hope that it will inspire other people in the same way.”

Dynamo fell into depression and was unable to perform after a flare-up of his Crohn’s disease after eating a piece of undercooked chicken led to years of hospital stays.

Last year he said problems with his medication caused his life to spiral into a “vicious circle” as he felt physically well enough to perform but lost all enjoyment in his work.

“If you take away the magic of a magician, you lose your sense of purpose,” he said The Sunday times.

He started self-harming and had an identity crisis. He told the newspaper: “Over the past five years, maybe even longer, I have sometimes lost the will to live.”

Dynamo was away from the country’s TV screens for four years, until a one-off show this year, with its last show airing in early 2020.

Diagnosed with Crohn’s, an inflammatory bowel disease, Frayne had to have half of his stomach removed in his teens and lived in excruciating pain for years.

He turned to magic to distract himself from his health problems, becoming a household name in 2011 and gaining fame through his incredible street performances, card tricks and stunts.

But his chronic illness has plagued him all along, flaring up in 2017 after he ate a piece of raw chicken at a fast food chain.

He disappeared from public view before opening up about its impact months later, telling fans he had been hospitalized with a combination of Crohn’s disease and food poisoning.

The artist revealed that he was still dealing with the side effects of his steroid medication, including arthritis in his hands, knees, toes, ankles and neck.

Frayne said sometimes it got so bad that he was “unable to shuffle a deck of cards.”

In 2019, he created a three-part miniseries in which he performed breathtaking magic tricks and discussed his road to recovery after his career-threatening illness.

But Frayne continued to struggle with mental health problems and told The Sunday Times that his wife encouraged him to seek help after ‘self-harming incidents’, and he started therapy in November 2020.

Tragically, in the midst of his depression, he lost his great-grandmother. Stricken with grief, he said he had locked himself in and was “afraid to go outside.”