Tyler West revealed that he was unable to use a knife for many years after witnessing a murder as a teenager.
The radio broadcaster and DJ, who recently performed on Strictly Come Dancing, was 14 years old when he witnessed a guy being stabbed to death outside his home in Sutton, southwest London.
During an interview on Tuesday’s Loose Women, the 26-year-old described the horrifying occurrence as ‘terrible,’ and said it’s something he’s still struggling to come to terms with over a decade later.
‘There’s not a day that goes by when you don’t think about it going through something like that,’ he said.
‘I saw a life get taken in front of me and it triggered attachment issues, I had counselling, I couldn’t use a knife and fork at dinner, I couldn’t walk on certain sides of the street, there was a long sort of process of things I am dealing with even up until now.’
Tyler explained what happened, saying he was driving home from an after-school club when three males began shouting.


Soon afterwards, one stumbled right outside of his house, when Tyler noticed that his neck ‘was cut open’.
‘The other two followed him and at this point I was at my bedroom window and I noticed one of them had a 12-inch kitchen knife in his hand,’ he said.
Tyler’s mother, Debbie, who was also on the panel, revealed how she spent 11 minutes on the phone with police waiting for aid while also trying to help the dying man.
Debbie, a nurse, said it was a scary ordeal going in and out of the residence to offer assistance as the man with the knife kept coming to the victim and stabbing him again and again.
The victim had 74 slash wounds by the end of the incident.
Both eventually testified in the trial, but the aftereffects of what they witnessed lasted, particularly for Tyler, who stated that he hesitated to leave his bedroom in the years that followed.
Tyler stated that having the love and support of those around him helped him the most in the end.
Tyler spoke out about the incident for the first time publicly last year, telling the Daily Mail that he woke up one morning thinking that he couldn’t let it ‘ruin his life,’ so he focused on his education and sports.
Loose Women airs weekdays at 12.30pm on ITV.