Brian Harvey has been taken into hospital and arrested after he shared a livestream in which he threatened self-harm and made ‘malicious communications’.
Police issued a statement after Brian was apprehended following the concerning video in which he also documented their arrival.
‘At approximately 18:09hrs on Thursday, 21 March police were alerted to man threatening self harm,’ the Met Police told Metro.co.uk.
‘Officers subsequently attended an address in Walthamstow to complete a welfare check. A man in his 40s was arrested on suspicion of malicious communications.’
He also shared footage of the police arriving at his property. They ask him to step away from a noose they can see behind him, and threaten to taser him.
The former East 17 front man has been open with his mental health battles and in 2018 he posted a video in which he claimed he had not left his house in years.
‘I’ve been a prisoner in my own home now for about five years. Four to five years,’ he said. ‘I’ve got to be trapped, like a prisoner, in my own home after selling 22million records. I’ve never done nothing to no one. I just chose not to get involved.’
Danniella Westbrook took to Twitter after discovering the news on Thursday, and told fans: ‘I’m in rehab just come out of a aa meeting been hospital all day myself I really hope this is a hoax as if it’s not my heart will be broken Brian is a good good man and if this is true I hope he gets the help he needs’.
The pair dated between 1991 and 1995 at the height of their fame. ‘Please if anyone has any news on Brian Harvey contact me thanks x my prayers heart and thoughts are with him x I pray his ok,’ she added.
