Loose Women's Linda Robson details 'meltdown' before Stacey Solomon rushed her to Priory

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Linda Robson, 64, has admitted that the new autobiography she's been creating has been "a bit like counselling" for her, after reliving all of her darkest thoughts about depression, suicidal tendencies and alcohol dependency in a chilling "trip down memory lane".

In a new podcast interview with Loose Women co-star Kaye Adams, she shared the trauma she felt while on suicide watch. "I was in Ibiza and had a meltdown and had to come home early," she confessed during an episode of the How To Be 60 podcast."Stacey Solomon brought me back to England and took me to the Priory, so I had a real, real meltdown."Reliving her experiences for the autobiography has proved cathartic for Linda, as she worked through the traumas and realised they were firmly in her past.She recalled that, as a teenager, her mouth was once washed out with soap at school at the age of 12 or 13 for swearing - but during the writing of the book, she was given the green light to unleash as many profanities as she wanted.She'd once been asked why she swore so often - and a chuckling Linda recalled that she'd fired back: "I don't have a f***ing clue!"In spite of her father being a "womaniser" who had rarely taken part in activities with the family or come to see her school plays, she told a concerned Kaye that she'd had a "happy" childhood.She later went on to enjoy a glittering showbiz career, and was bewildered when depression reared its ugly head, as she didn't expect to be impacted by mental health issues."If you'd ever told me that would happen to me [before it did], I'd have said 'No way'," she admitted to Kaye."Members of my family had depression, [including] my son, and I'm the one that had been strong for them."[Yet] all of a sudden, they were having.