Olly Murs couldn't be happier in life right now, especially after getting engaged to Amelia Tank this summer. But his happy-go-lucky spirit hasn’t always painted an honest picture of how he’s felt in the past.
As he returns with his first new music in four years, the singer, 38, has confessed that his "cheekiness" was a facade while he was single, and away from the spotlight he felt really "quite lonely" underneath it all.
Olly said: "I don’t want to bang on about mental health and the difficult times because I’m feeling great at the moment. “But all the cheekiness and the fun in the years I was single, it was just a facade.
I was genuinely in quite a bad place at times." He continued: "I didn’t talk about it to my team or anyone. I just felt really s**t, down and lonely.
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