Rylan Clark has detailed how his “almost step-parents”, Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford, visited him during a particularly dark period following his split from husband, Dan Neal.
Rylan’s new book, Ten: The Decade That Changed My Future, catalogues a series of events that would ultimately lead to hospitalisation.
Rylan had woken up one day and decided to tell his boyfriend Dan that he had cheated “years ago.” But when dan subsequently left him, Rylan was distraught but acknowledged that he was the only one “who could physically dig my nails into that mud and try and pull myself up.” “I sat Mum down and told her I needed to be locked up,” Rylan admitted in the book. “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.
He added: “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. “ Mum Linda went one step further and arranged for close friends and colleagues Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford to visit her son at home.
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