Rylan Clark admits he could not eat or sleep after his marriage broke down

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Rylan Clark has said he could not sleep, eat or dress himself after he split up from his former husband Dan Neal. The 34-year-old TV presenter said he had dealt with suicidal thoughts after his marriage broke down and could not speak properly for two weeks.

Rylan spoke about his mental health challenges after the relationship breakup on musician Matt Willis' podcast On The Mend. He said: “My marriage ended and I didn’t know it would end and I felt like everything was my fault and I felt like, right, but this is salvageable, I can sort this out… “I’m the fixer, that’s what I always do, and all of a sudden I couldn’t fix something and it’s confusing me because I was like, but that’s not right.” He added: “I can’t remember what made me disappear, basically, from the person I knew, but the next thing I knew, I could not see, hear, eat, breathe, sleep, I couldn’t do anything.” READ MORE: Emmerdale fans say 'snap' after Lisa Riley shares 'proof' of the hot weather His mental health affected him physically.

The 6ft 4ins tall presenter said that his weight dropped to just nine stone. He said: “It was like I’d had a stroke and my mum thought I was having a stroke… I just got into this dark hole where I thought I was crazy because nothing was making sense to me and partly that was because of upset and heartbreak, but at the same time, the situation, with what I was being told, I thought I was going mad, I thought I was making things up.” Clark added: “I’m so strong.

I’m so, so strong, but I was so broken, to the point where I physically couldn’t dress, I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t do none of these things.