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Comedian Paul Merton has revealed that he had to spend time in a psychiatric hospital after suffering a "bad reaction" to malaria tablets.

The Have I Got News For You star suffered the "manic episode" in 1989 after taking the pills (since withdrawn from the market) before a trip to Kenya.

He said the two-month stay at the hospital was "frightening and scary" but worried he would have been sectioned without treatment.

Merton recalled being paranoid about the phone being bugged, and patients "shaking" at seeing "a man off the telly" in the ward.

"When something like that happens to you... It's new and different and scary," he said.

This clip is originally from Colin Paterson on Wednesday 1 October 2014.