Heartbroken Vanessa Feltz 'can't sleep' following split from fiance as she asks viewers for advice

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Vanessa Feltz has opened up on her recent heartbreak on This Morning, saying she's not sleeping at all but won't let it 'grind her down'.Over the weekend, the TV star, 60, revealed that she and her fiance of 16-years Ben Ofoedu, 50, had called time on their relationship.And today, Vanessa joined her colleagues Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby to talk about the break up and how she is doing.

Vanessa told Holly and Phil she's very grateful for the messages of support she has been receiving on social media. She said: "I've had what feels like millions of messages, so so many from people going through it and I wouldn't want to minimise in anyway what it's like when you're heartbroken.

It's horrible."People have been amazing, it helps a lot and also I can't sleep at all so reading thousands and thousands of messages from lovely people on Instagram and it's something to do in the middle of the night, you know I'm really finding my real friends and my real family."The agony aunt went on to say that she won't let it grind her down as it's not the first time she's been through a break-up.

She added: "God's sake I am not alone and also I've been through it before, it's not like I'm a stranger to stuff I've already had a horrible divorce so it's quite a familiar feeling but I'm absolutely not going to let it grind me down."Phil asked Vanessa about wearing her 'heart on her sleeve' and she said she felt she 'didn't have much choice' as she knew the news would come out one way or another.She said she tried to keep the news to herself for as long as possible.