ANDREA McLean says she "cracked up and fell apart" after being a "Stepford wife at work". Speaking on Loose Women today, 50-year-old Andrea opened up about suffering a secret breakdown last year.
She described what happened to her as "death by paper cut" - insisting there wasn't "one big traumatic event" that caused her mental health issues.
But she recognises now that she was hiding her struggles from her husband Nick Feeney and her Loose Women co-stars because she didn't want to burden them.
On today's ITV show Andrea said: "A lot of the accusations I've had during my 25-year TV career is 'oh Andrea McLean, she's very safe.
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