Secrets from the Asylum (Documentary, English)
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2014-08-20
Ended: 2014-08-27
Network: ITV1
Country: GB
Airs on: Wednesday
Air time: 21:00
Runtime: 60 minutes
Secrets from the Asylum follows several celebrities as they try to find out why their ancestors had spent time within the asylum. The asylum was seen as a place of stigma and shame. However, asylums hoped to help people be restored to a first-class citizen to be able to live in the real world again. What had actually followed after leaving the asylum was a life-time of shame, guilt, secrets and lies.