N-Dubz star Dappy has opened up about his struggle with depression. 

The 'Spaceship' singer, who has two sons with girlfriend Kaye Vassell, has admitted that the pressure of being in the spotlight and suddenly becoming "the man of the house" was too much for him to handle last year and there was a point where he was so low he "thought about ending it all".

Speaking to Heat magazine, Dappy explained:

"I was brought up in a family with my dad, mum and my brother - the four of us. All of a sudden, I'm by myself, my dad's dead, my mum's devastated, my older brother's got his own problems and suddenly I'm the man of the house."

"I pay their bills and look after them, as well as having a girlfriend and kids of my own. It just all got too much and I was feeling very lonely."

He added that the limitations of being in the public eye often make him feel as though he can't be himself:

"It's promo, promo, work, back home. promo, promo, work, back in your hole. It's very limiting."

"If I go to a club, I'm in the paper the next day for doing something naughty. So I can't go out or be myself. I just felt really depressed."

Watch the video for his debut solo single, 'No Regrets', here: