MELANIE Sykes has admitted that her son's autism diagnosis "fuelled" her marriage breakdown. The 51-year-old star was left heartbroken when son Valentino, now 17, was diagnosed with the lifelong developmental disability at the age of three, and split from Daniel Caltagirone a year later.
Opening up, Melanie has now revealed that she didn't think she could help her son if she'd remained in the marriage. The TV favourite explained: "That boy is the light of my life.
When he was diagnosed he changed my life. "I couldn’t be in a marriage that I wasn’t happy in, in order to help him. I had to sort myself out and he helped me get out of the situation that I was in – he was definitely the fuel for the move to do that. "When you are unhappy you.
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