Mary Black has opened up for the first time about the deep depression she suffered at the height of her fame.
The Woman’s Heart singer, right, recalls the sacrifices she made along the way to becoming one of the best-selling female music artists of the 1980s.
But she describes being torn at the height of her fame when she had to often leave her children at home with her husband and manager Joe O’Reilly to go on tour.
In a deeply-personal RTE documentary, the mother-of-three also opens up about her struggle with depression.
She said: “I am blessed by so many things but people don’t really know what is going on in someone else’s life.
"I haven’t had too many bouts of depression but it has always more or less been there.”
“You didn’t really say too much, it was a bit shameful almost, you’re talking 37, 38 years ago.
“One of my lowest times in my life from a depression point of view was when I was at the highest point in my career, in my life generally.
“It’s funny to be on your knees at a time like that when actually your life is going exactly the way you would hope it to go but it’s nothing to do with any of that.”
Cameras follow the emotional singer behind the scenes as The RTE National Symphony Orchestra re-imagine some of her biggest hits using her original vocals.
Mary Black – No Frontiers is on RTE One on Monday September 9 at 9.35pm.
