Daniel Radcliffe Emotionally Reads His Great-Grandfather’s Suicide Note on TV

Daniel Radcliffe appears in an upcoming episode of the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?, where he reportedly reads a suicide note that was left by his great-grandfather Samuel Gershon, who took his own life at the age of 42.

On the show, we discover that Samuel‘s jewelry store was robbed in 1936, and soon after, he filed an insurance claim. However, Samuel, who was Jewish, was accused of faking the robbery. Daniel got to read the original police report, which read (via The Sun), “Jews are so frequently responsible for the bringing down of their own business premises.”

After reading the suicide note, Daniel reportedly gets emotional and says, “You want to just reach into the past and just go, ‘Whatever you’re going through, you have so much to offer the people who are around you still… you have so much to give to them. And, they still would all have loved you.’”

He continues, “There’s a lot to dig into in that one sentence. It’s very jarring to see being a Jew to be taken as a piece of evidence in itself.”

It’s unclear when this episode will air.

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