Graham Norton has opened up about not one, but two shocking knife attacks he was involved in some years ago.
The Irish presenter was studying drama in London in the 80’s when he was mugged, stabbed, and left for dead.
Graham lost half his blood in the attack, before an elderly couple came to the rescue.
Some years later, he found himself threatened by one again.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror about this particular incident, Graham said, “There were people around and it was fine. It was outside a club.
“Somebody wanted money and had a knife. And what’s so sad about the knife crime now, is that everyone is a victim in the end.
“Because people are losing their lives and equally the kids stabbing people, their life is destroyed for nothing, for this stupid thing because they couldn’t get their heads around the consequences.”
He went on to say, “In the moment it was, ‘I want that phone’ or ‘You’ve got the keys to the car I want to steal.’
“I think it’s a lack of imagination in the end, that if you had the empathy, that level of imagination to think it through, that the person you’re stabbing could be a brother friend sister, mother or father, you wouldn’t do it.
“Somehow people have been dehumanised.”