EX-EASTENDERS star Rita Simons has revealed she suffered a nervous breakdown when she divorced her ex Theo Silverston after 14 years of marriage.
The Roxy Mitchell actress, who was then starring in play The House On Cold Hill, said things got so tough in 2019 she imagined throwing herself down stairs so that she could be hospitalised, take a break from work and get to see her kids.
The mum-of-two shared: "I don’t think I’d have survived without help. There were days where, I wouldn’t say I was suicidal, because I’ve never got to that point and I would never do it, but I was aware life would be better dead than alive, because I couldn’t see my kids and I was so far from home. "My mind went to some major dark places.
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