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From teenage criminal to comedy legend

About turn: After receiving his knighthood from the King, Sir Stephen Fry said his mother was "beaming like a lighthouse". She was very happy, he added, "especially given the grief I gave her, my father and the rest of the family as a child and a teenager".

Can anyone turn their life around? The actor, screenwriter and author Sir Stephen Fry was knighted by King Charles this week. But Fry, who struggles with bipolar disorder, says he was not always sure he would make it this far.

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