Frankie Bridge opened up to Matty Lee about her past mental health struggles in Friday night’s episode of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!.
The former Saturdays singer, 32, shared of how she was hospitalised aged 21 because she had a breakdown following a public break up.
She told the 23-year-old gold medallist: ‘I’ve always had depression and anxiety and I just had a breakdown when I was about 21, I think I was. I’d been through a really bad break-up, that was really public and everyone was really horrible.’
Sad: Frankie Bridge, 32, opened up to Matty Lee about her past mental health struggles in Friday night’s episode of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
The Loose Women panellist continued on in the Telegraph: ‘I know it can be a bit shocking for other people to hear that I was hospitalised at 21.
‘I think people often think that that kind of thing only happens to older people. So I don’t mind talking about it and Matty seemed genuinely interested.’
She went on: ‘I lost loads of weight and stuff. Wayne called my doctor and was like, “I don’t know what to do with her anymore.'” So they came and saw me. And they decided that I should go into hospital.
Lowest ebb:The former Saturdays singer shared of how she was hospitalised aged 21 because she had a breakdown following a public break up; pictured on the way to the hospital with now husband Wayne
‘So I had one music video that we needed to shoot in Iceland [for The Saturdays]. My manager was like, ‘OK, let’s do this one last thing and then go.’ None of the girls knew at this point.
‘So I went over to Iceland, did that video and then I knew when I landed – there’s pap pictures of us in the airport – I knew I was going straight to hospital basically when I got back. Wayne drove me, dropped me off.’
Matty then replied: ‘It’s a massive eye-opener and you’ve got to have these conversations because without conversations you don’t learn, you never know what’s going on.’
Frankie said: ‘You think I’d feel really, like I’d hate it, but actually it’s a really nice memory. It was the first time in years I felt really relaxed, I didn’t have to hide anything.
Upsetting: She told the 23-year-old gold medallist: ‘I’ve always had depression and anxiety and I just had a breakdown when I was about 21, I think I was. I’d been through a really bad break-up, that was really public and everyone was really horrible’
‘Everyone was on medication, everyone was having therapy, everyone had some sort of an issue. I didn’t have to pretend to be happy all the time. Being in hospital was a breath of fresh air really, but it’s a young age to have a mental breakdown.’
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Frankie then said in the Telegraph: ‘It’s weird to think Matty’s only 23. And it just kind of makes me realise how young I was and how different people’s lives and certain times of their lives can be.’
Matty asked what the turnaround point was. Frankie said: ‘Because I was with Wayne, I still remember being in the shower, and thinking, I love him, we’d spoken about marriage and kids and stuff, we had a beautiful home, I had a career I’d always wanted, but I just knew I was fundamentally unhappy.
‘And that was when I realised that something just really wasn’t right. It was almost being happy made me realise I was unhappy, which is probably really hard for people to understand.’
‘My main reason for wanting to get better was because I knew I wanted kids. I was like, I can’t be like this if I want to be a mum.
Down: She went on: I lost loads of weight and stuff. Wayne called my doctor and was like, ‘I don’t know what to do with her anymore.’ So they came and saw me. And they decided that I should go into hospital’
‘I knew I needed to sort myself out. So that was my main reason for wanting to get better. I was really lucky that Wayne put me in there basically and could afford to send me. It was s*** but it was great at the same time.’
Elsewhere in the episode, Matty bathed in a bathtub full of stinking offal and slime as he took on the Lethal Latrines trial in a bid to win stars.
The Olympic diver wore goggles over his eyes as he sat in the tub, which was filled to the brim with the grim mixture before Matty had various revolting concoctions poured over him.
Presenter Ant McPartlin explained: ‘You have to stay in until we say bath time is over, alright?’
As the bathtub filled up with stinking red goo, Declan Donnelly turned to his co-cost and quipped: ‘There’s definitely something wrong with the plumbing!’
‘Yep. It’s because the bogs are blocked up!’ responded Ant, before Dec added: ‘Something’s not right. It shouldn’t be that colour.’
‘In there with you is offal and slime,’ Ant told Matty before the diver was then doused with cuts of rotten meat.
Lethal Latrines: Elsewhere in the episode, Matty bathed in a bathtub full of stinking offal and slime as he took on the Lethal Latrines trial in a bid to win stars
Source: Daily Mail
