Robin Windsor links Strictly axe to his mental health struggles in suicide note
Former Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer Robin Windsor died at the age of 44. (Getty)
Robin Windsor, the English professional dancer best known for appearing on Strictly Come Dancing between 2010 and 2013, linked his departure from the show with a decline in his mental health – an inquest into his death has revealed.
Proceedings for Windsor’s death inquest opened this week, two years after Windsor died aged 44 in 2024.
The hearing was informed Windsor was found dead in his hotel room in west London and two notes were discovered close to Windsor.
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One of the notes was addressed to his former partner, Ollie Augustin, stating that his decision to end his life was not Augustin’s fault.
The second note detailed Windsor’s mental health decline after his exit from Strictly due to a back injury he sustained which required surgery.
Because of this surgery Windsor could not participate in the 2014 series, and producers later decided not to bring him back for the 2015 series.
“This all really started when I lost my job on Strictly and have been fighting it ever since. The way they treated me destroyed me…
“It started me on the road I’m still on. All I wanted from life was to be happy. I loved my job more than anyone else,” Windsor wrote in the note, as per The Sun.
He also wrote that the “heartache, the loneliness, the constant sadness” had become “too much”.
Readers affected by the issues raised in this story are encouraged to contact Samaritans free on 116 123 (www.samaritans.org) or Mind on 0300 123 3393 (www.mind.org.uk). Readers in the US are encouraged to contact the National Suicide Prevention Line on 1-800-273-8255.
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