Chris Kamara breaks down in tears as he shares battle with rare speech condition

Chris Kamara breaks down in tears as he shares battle with rare speech conditionSource: Good Morning Britain, ITV

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00:00 to see a brain specialist and I was only in there for two minutes speaking to it and he

00:08 said you've got apraxia of speech where the connection between the brain and the mouth

00:15 breaks down and you can't say the words, your mouth can't control itself to say the words

00:22 properly, they come out very slow and so I thought that defined me. So my apologies to

00:32 everybody out there who's got a speech condition because it doesn't define who you are. I get

00:42 upset about talking about it because I was in denial, I was ashamed that I couldn't speak.

00:54 You've got nothing to be ashamed of. Honestly, you've done so much to inspire other people.

01:06 I know Ben you've had experiences haven't you where you've spoken to people who are

01:10 literally no longer ashamed of what they're experiencing because of the way that you've

01:15 spoken out about it. Yeah, that's been the good thing about all this. Ben was behind

01:22 me coming out and doing the documentary and talking about it and once I'd spoken about

01:30 it and you get it off your chest and realise that everyone's behind you, family, friends

01:39 We're all with you all the way, no matter what happens.