Biden says he briefly contemplated killing himself after his wife and son’s death (Picture: AP)
Joe Biden has admitted he once briefly considered killing himself after losing his wife and daughter in a car crash.
In an interview with radio journalist Howard Stern, the US President opened up about his grief after his first wife Nelia and their one-year-old daughter Naomi died in a car crash in Delaware on December 18, 1972.
Mr Biden told Stern: ‘You don’t have to be crazy to commit suicide, if you’ve been to the top of the mountain and you think you’ll never be there again.
‘For a brief moment I thought maybe I’ll just go to Delaware memorial bridge and just jump.’
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