His band’s new album Suckapunch, released on Friday, features the song Finish What I Started which was written during that period.
Franceschi told the PA news agency: “This is a song we have been sitting on about a time when I was very close to ending my life to be honest, and I think that I was lucky that I had a support network around me and I went to therapy and got through it.
“It was strange. I feel like maybe Tyson Fury and myself were on the same journey at the same time. I was so inspired by this person getting their life together. I was like, ‘I have got to get my life together’.