She is the loose-lipped Loose Woman who wears her heart on her sleeve and isn’t afraid to say exactly what she thinks. But for the past year TV favourite Andrea McLean has been harbouring a secret heartache about a painful breakdown she suffered last autumn.
The 50-year-old returned to the hit ITV chat show earlier this month and let slip that the collapse in 2019 had left her “in a really dark place”.
Now, speaking about it at length for the first time, Andrea reveals how a painful “personal” experience left her broken and forced her to “dim my lights”.
Andrea has carried the heartbreak for most of her adult life and says she never wants another woman to go through what she has.
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