Bear Grylls has revealed details about his relationship with his late father in a new interview.
He spoke on Piers Morgan's Life Stories about the 'shock' of finding out that his late father, the politician Sir Michael Grylls, had died in 2001.
When Morgan asked him about how he was told the news of his father's death, Bear broke down into tears and had to pause the interview.
After returning to his chair, he said: "It's just very raw. I think it's raw. The one that killed me, is seeing him with me in the little boat and stuff because I do that with my three boys and it's funny because they look so like him and so like I did at that age, and it's exactly what I do with them and I just know... he'd love that with them."
Grylls became the youngest man to climb Mount Everest at the age of 23 after breaking his back in an accident.
"It was a difficult decision, I think, especially for my family because I'd broken my back in this free-fall accident a year earlier," he recalled.
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Grylls continued: "They lived through all the stress of me being in this military rehab centre at Headley Court, having to leave the army, being unable to move, being strapped up in braces, doctors not knowing if I was going to be able to walk again properly, and they had been through such trauma really - alongside me - of which I kind of felt guilty about in a way.
"We had four climbers lose their lives up there, two died of the cold, two fell and you see the harsh real side of high altitude mountaineering and it was ugly and frightening and horrible. I almost lost my life down a deep crevasse early on in the expedition. I should have been killed by a big avalanche that whisked past us by a fraction."
Grylls also responded to allegations that he has staged parts of his survival shows.
"[Those accusations are] definitely hard. I'd had very little exposure to press stuff really,' he explained. "I'd done a few interviews and suddenly it was everywhere and my instinct was to come out and go, 'No, no, it's not like that. I'll tell you the real story, come with me and come filming and we'll show you'.
"There was substance to that one allegation about a hotel and I had done that for a night. I wanted to explain the situation, but they didn't really want the truth, they wanted the headlines."
Piers Morgan's Life Stories airs on ITV on Friday, September 19 at 9pm.
