Money expert Martin Lewis opens up about losing his mother as a child

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) December 6, 2018

He told GMB: “I lost my mum just before I was 12 and it was very sudden. And it’s something I struggle to talk about.

“I’ve done one interview in my life on it. I won’t do another one and I won’t be going into details here because it took me a very long time to recover from that.

“Giving your time is incredibly precious and there are many people who hurt out there for lots of different reasons that we don’t often see.

“You know, I’m someone on television and you see the veneer of being happy all the time, but of course all of us pain and problems and grief that’s beneath the surface.”

Presenter Kate Garraway wiped away tears as Mr Lewis spoke, with co-host Susanna Reid thanking him for his candour.

Mr Lewis, the founder of the MoneySavingExpert website, was born in Manchester to Jewish parents, and raised in Cheshire, where his father was the headmaster of Delamere Forest School, a Jewish special educational needs school.