Leach says he "could not have asked for a better home to be raised in" but adds that even that wasn't enough to keep him free of depression. Raised as a Christian, he says it was when he began to question his faith that his depression really took hold.

He tells the You Rock Foundation: "I had one night in particular where I was ready, it was just total hopelessness. I had divine intervention, whatever you want to call it, it happened to me. Call it what you will, if you don't believe in God, call it intuition.

"I was watching the leaves fall off this tree and I felt like I was one of those leaves that just gave up. It was as if all this pain could be gone if I just did this. I scared myself because I had entertained the thought enough where I considered it.