“But I honestly had no clue at 17 what you wore for a party. Did you wear a suit? Did you wear jeans and a T-shirt? What did you wear? I got myself into such a panicked anxiety about it that in the end I said I was feeling sick and didn’t go.

“I never went out to a party or the pub or anything until I left school at 18. So my life wasn’t very happy, not my teenage years at all.”

Although he is now able to talk about the loss of his mother, and he encourages young people to reach out to bereavement charity Grief Encounter, Lewis still finds it incredibly hard.

“I maybe need to forgive some anger within myself and my reaction to not dealing with it properly when I was younger. And how I missed and threw those years away. Now, as a father when I look back, I was a little boy struggling to deal with something nobody should be dealing with at that age.”

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Desert Island Discs: Martin Lewis recalls the real impact grief had on his childhood