JOEY Essex fans praised the grieving star who tonight revealed he has depression like his late mum. The 30-year-old has opened up in a moving BBC documentary about struggling to cope with her suicide 20 years on.
His mum Tina lost her battle with depression in 2001, when Joey was just ten years old. Tonight in Joey Essex: Grief and Me, the reality star choked up as he relived the devastating moment his dad told him "mummy's gone".
Joey said: "After what happened, my life was torn to pieces. My anxiety was through the roof, my depression. "I used to go to hospital all the time thinking something was wrong with me.
I don't know why, I couldn't explain it. "It was anger I suppose. You ask yourself, 'why, why, why'." Fans were moved to tears.
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