Fearne Cotton Opens Up About Her Depression And Anxiety In New Interview

"I fell into a pretty big hole of depression and not much around me seemed to make sense."

For a number of years Fearne Cotton has been very candid about her mental health. In fact, she has built a brand and written books about the subject which have helped people cope with their own issues.

However, in a recent interview the radio DJ got super honest about a particularly depressive period in her life and how it impacted her.

Speaking on Angela Scanlon’s Thanks A Million podcast, she shared that she quit her job as a host on Celebrity Juice and her Radio 1 DJ slot without having anything else lined up due to her increasing struggles with depression and anxiety.

“I left Radio 1 and I was about to have my daughter, Honey, my second child. I had no work at all. None. Zero jobs.”

“I had no safety net. I think I was sort of busy dealing with that. And then all of the other stuff sort of came later, really. But it was worth the jump. I think having a bit of a break or a bit of stillness is no bad thing.”

“And it’s where you start to potentially have ideas and to just think of life in a new way.”

 

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Fearne has a number of books and journals, as well as a podcast on the subject of mental health, including her own brand Happy Place which delves into these subjects further.

“A lot of my work has come from that area of my life where I fell into a pretty big hole of depression and not much around me seemed to make sense,” she shared.

At the beginning she revealed that she found it very hard to speak about; “I felt very isolated and very alone in my experience. It was long before I even dared use the word depression…”

 

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Now, the mother-of-two is super open about her struggles in the hopes it will help others and her latest book, ‘Speak Your Truth’ touches on this.

“Now, it’s an everyday part of my life, whether it’s friends who know that I’ll open up about it or mostly in my work. Before this point, I would never have dared talk about my mental health. I don’t think I even knew what that was.

“Obviously, by default, I felt very alone in that due to the fact that I hadn’t had those conversations. There are a few things I’m still working on from that time. One of them is confidence because I totally lost it when I didn’t have any at all, which has really hindered me in my work life and somewhat in my personal life.”

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