Rylan Clark has spoken up about how he handled Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes when suffering from melancholy after his marriage ended.
After six years of marriage, the TV presenter and his husband Dan Neal divorced last year, and he has been frank about the toll it took on him.
He earlier stated that “there were weeks when I couldn’t speak” and that he was hospitalised after having two heart failures during the difficult period.
In a new interview, Rylan opens up about his breakdown, calling it ‘the lowest time of my life,’ and how he was trying to do ‘everything I could for my body to shut down.’
The 34-year-old said: ‘A friend is someone, like last year, when you are at your lowest, they will try and do anything to help you.
‘I remember, I didn’t want to see anyone at the house and I became really agoraphobic, and my mum called Ruth and Eamonn, and they turned up at my house.’

He continued on The High Performance podcast: ‘Eamonn got really upset because I was clearly visibly very sick, as did Ruth, and I didn’t want to see them.
‘I just remember breaking down and saying, “Get out, I don’t want to see anyone. I don’t want to see anyone”.
‘And they had driven two hours to get there, but they did that not because it was going on Instagram, not because they are going to get kudos from people on Twitter, they did that because they cared, they did that because they cared about me. And I would do the same.’


He added: ‘It reminded me there’s life outside of the front door. I didn’t want it, but it reminded me that I was someone before all of this s**t.
‘You forget that you’re a person when you’re going through all of that, you forget that you’ve got a body, you forget that you’ve got a brain, and you forget that you’ve got a voice.
‘And they were obviously really, really shocked at how I was speaking.’
‘Ruth and Eamonn are like my mum and dad,’ he added.
Rylan also disclosed awful threats given to him by trolls, including one horrifying occasion when a hotel clerk threatened to’slice’ his neck while he slept.
‘I don’t care if someone calls me talentless,’ he began.
‘I don’t care if someone says “big tooth p***k”.’
‘It’s like, I’ve got money in the bank, I’m fine babe.’
He continued: ‘But when someone’s saying “I can see you currently on your balcony of your room, 401, and I’ve got a key card because I work here and I’m going to slice your neck in your sleep.”
‘Then you sit there go “f**k, that’s a bit too much information that they know”.’