Tom Grennan: I have therapy every single day - it's a spiritual journey

E ach week we ask a public figure to delve into their childhood, and look at how their early experiences influenced the man they grew up to be.

Tom Grennan, 30, is a singer-songwriter from Bedford whose last two albums topped the UK chart. His new album Everywhere I Went, Led Me To Where I Didn’t Want To Be is out now. He has a BBC podcast with DJ and One Show presenter Roman Kemp , called ‘You About?’. Grennan lives in London with his wife Danniella Carraturo, a pilates instructor, and their seven-month-old daughter, Dottie.

I was beaten up so badly at 17 that I felt suicidal. [Grennan was attacked outside a chicken shop in his hometown of Bedford, leaving him with a broken jaw and years of complications, with metal plates only recently removed]. I physically couldn’t move