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SEE VIDEO JK Rowling breaks down in tears in Harry Potter flat

Author returns to Edinburgh home where she began the wizard series

JK Rowling broke down in tears as she visited the spot where she wrote her first novel about boy wizard Harry Potter.

The talented writer – who's now worth an estimated £500 million - returned to the tiny Edinburgh flat where she penned Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone.

Despite her amazing worldwide success, the 42-year-old couldn't help crying as she remembered the financial pressures she was under as she struggled to make ends meet as a young single mum.

The moment has been captured in a new documentary about her life.

'This is really where I turned my life around,' she tells the film crew as she stands wet-faced.

'My life really changed in this flat. It was very hard and I didn't know there was going to be this fairytale resolution – and coming back here is full of ghosts.'

JK Rowling: A Year In The Life was screened on ITV on 30 December.

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Alison Adey