Andrea McLean ‘didn’t mean to’ speak publicly about heartbreaking breakdown: ‘I’d been off air for six weeks’

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Andrea McLean ‘didn’t mean to’ share her breakdown publicly. The Loose Women star confessed on the show that she had been in a ‘really dark place’ following a breakdown last year in the wake of a ‘personal’ incident she didn’t go into detail about.

The presenter said returning to the air after six weeks might have prompted her to open up. ‘I didn’t mean to talk it about on air,’ she told The Mirror. ‘I had been off air for six weeks and then when I went back on it slipped out. ‘I’m not ashamed of it and I’ve learnt so much.

I think people were surprised as they think ‘she doesn’t look like the type of person who has a breakdown.’ Recalling the secret heartbreak, the 50-year-old confessed it forced her to ‘myself small through a lot of my