Comic believes he has ADHD

Lee Mack has spoken out about his mental health issues, saying he  hears up to nine voices in his head at once.

‘To me, it is like eight or nine radio channels going off at once, he said. 'Most people can tune into one, but you tend to tune into nine.

‘The problem is you're not listening to any one of them enough - or you have mad obsessive concentration on one thing.’

The Not Going Out star said he has believes he has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, but joked that when he took the test, he couldn’t even concentrate on that.

‘I started joking around on it and I do get distracted easily. As an adult having it - and I do suspect I've got it having spoken to people about it - it has its positives and its negatives.

"The positives are in my job on panel games I can hear several people talking, whereas some people are just focusing on the one person talking. You can tune it to what suits - what you want to talk about.’

Speaking on The Times’s Walking The Dog podcast the 52-year-old comic added: ‘When I used to go to pubs I would go "That was all kicking off, wasn't it?" They [my friends] would go "What was?"

"I'd say "The conversation behind us where that row broke out", and they go "I didn't notice anything".

Last month, Mack revealed how he is so scared of of flying he won’t get on a plane with his family - and instead takes a car or train to their holiday destinations and meets them there.

Published: 6 Feb 2021