Tom Grennan has undergone some fairly intense surgical procedure to take away metallic plates from his jaw.

The 30-year-old singer was hospitalised on the age of 18 after being attacked by a gaggle of strangers in his hometown of Bedford.

In consequence, he wanted to have screws and metallic plates fitted to his jaw to repair his accidents.

Nonetheless, the plates just lately began to trigger issues, so he underwent one other operation earlier this yr to have them taken out.

He advised The Occasions newspaper: ‘They have been pushing themselves out of my gums … [Having surgery] was a reduction for me. I’m not reminded of that point in my life.

‘It was like I closed the door, and that was me being launched, I suppose.’

Throughout the interview, Tom admitted the assault left him with lasting bodily and psychological accidents, and it took him years to get better.

‘I believe that was the primary time my world got here crashing down, the primary time I actually knew what it was wish to be depressed, to really feel suicidal, like no person beloved me.

‘From one little factor that any individual did. One punch induced an earthquake, a tsunami. It took me years to open up.’

Nonetheless, he credited the trauma from the assault with main him to embrace songwriting and kickstart his creativity.

‘The assault was horrible, nevertheless it allowed me to open up one other a part of my thoughts. I’d by no means written a music earlier than it,’ he revealed.

In addition to having surgical procedure on his jaw this yr, Tom additionally went below the knife to repair a tendon harm, and he just lately admitted the restoration course of has been powerful as he battled nervousness points.

Tom advised MailOnline final month: ‘I’m an individual like all people who suffers with nervousness and psychological well being.

‘I’ve bought a nasty ankle; I’ve needed to have an operation to get a tendon rebuilt, so I used to be in a boot for eight weeks. It’s not good; it’s a protracted restoration.

‘So we’ll see what I can do. I’m going to need to get it strapped up—I’m nonetheless not comfy with it. I believe that’s the place lots of my anxiousness over the previous few months has come from.’

The Little Little bit of Love hitmaker has lengthy spoken overtly about his psychological well being.

In dialog with Roman Kemp for psychological well being charity YoungMinds final yr, Tom mirrored on feeling like he was in a ‘sinking gap’ when he was youthful.

‘I couldn’t get off the bed,’ he admitted. ‘I believed the entire world was in opposition to me. I believed I wasn’t ok. I by no means had been any individual who would speak about my emotions, particularly to my associates and to not my mother and father, both. 

‘So then I began to only write little notes in a notepad after which picked up a guitar.’

As he started processing his personal feelings, it additionally allowed Tom to speak in confidence to his mum and kind a deeper connection together with her.

The star first discovered fame because the visitor vocalist on Chase & Standing’s All Goes Improper in 2016 and has gone on to grow to be an enormous presence within the UK music scene.

Tom launched his debut album in 2018, which peaked at quantity 5 within the charts, earlier than his subsequent two information each hit primary.

Later this yr, he’ll embark on his largest ever tour, enjoying in arenas throughout the nation.

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