“I walked exterior devastated after that occurred on Howard Stern, pondering this was the tip,” he continued. “Primary, I had embarrassed and humiliated my youngsters and my household, who have been in class on the time, speaking about…that their dad is psychological. And I will by no means work once more — who’s gonna rent any individual that has a psychological well being downside? And I did not know what to do. I used to be considering operating straight into site visitors in Manhattan there, standing on the sidewalk, when any individual got here as much as me and stated, ‘Are you Howie Mandel?’ And I stated, ‘Yeah,’ and he stated, ‘I simply heard you on Howard Stern.’ And my coronary heart simply sunk into my abdomen, and I’m going, ‘That is it.’ However then he went, ‘Me too. … I endure from it too, and it was so good to listen to you speak.'” Mandel then began receiving letters from others thanking him for talking on his situation. He would later change into far more open about it.