The Sun, Rylan revealed: “I couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t talk, nothing. I couldn’t watch TV or listen to music.“I just couldn’t do it.
I felt like I was having a stroke, or worse. I stopped working completely.”Struggling with blame and guilt, Rylan spiralled downwards even further, reaching out to his mother and brother Jamie for help.“I sat Mum down and told her I needed to be locked up,” Rylan admitted. “I said, ‘I can’t do it any more.’ I could see in her eyes that she couldn’t believe what was happening to her baby.“She called my big brother Jamie and my managers and they arranged for me to go to a mental health hospital where they knew I would be well looked after. “Going into details about his mental state and the institution he was taken to, Rylan, whose real name is Ross Richard Clark, also shared that at one point his mother Linda arranged for television personalities Eamonn and Ruth to visit the star.Unaware of the visit, Rylan said that he will always remember the look on both of their faces.Calling them his “almost step-parents” Rylan said that Eamonn became very upset, more than he had ever seen Eamonn get upset before.Questioning whether he actually looked as bad as the pair’s reaction hinted at, Rylan took it as motivation to get his health back on track.Having gone through hell and back, over a four-month break from the spotlight, Rylan was able to slowly get better and has now returned to his BBC Radio 2 show and presenting duties on Strictly It Takes Two.Aware of how much Rylan had gone through, close-friend Eamonn defended the star after he was accused of faking “sickies” to get out of work.In a tweet back in February of this year, which has since been deleted, one user said: "Never been a.
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