RUSSELL WATSON - WATSON PLAGUED BY POST-OP MOOD SWINGS

WATSON PLAGUED BY POST-OP MOOD SWINGS

British opera star RUSSELL WATSON is still suffering the effects of emergency surgery to remove a brain tumour last year (06) - he's prone to terrifying mood swings. The singer had the growth removed in September in a five hour operation to save his life. But despite pulling through the complicated procedure, Watson has found the road to recovery slow and scary as the surgery affected his pituitary gland which controls hormone levels. He says, "My mood swings went from ecstatic to suicidal. I remember one night standing on the balcony, full of dark thoughts and self-pity, thinking, 'God, this is f**king terrible, why me?' "I couldn't deal with more than one person at a time or with multi-tasking and I cried easily. "The best thing I can say now, three months later, is that where I was getting a hell of a lot of really bad days, now the good days outnumber the bad."