The former Made in Chelsea star, 36, made the candid confession about her four-year-old daughter Aurelia after her meltdowns spiralled out of control
Millie Mackintosh has revealed she called in a child specialist to help her manage her daughter’s separation anxiety amid her split from husband Hugo Taylor. The 36-year-old opened up about the turmoil at home as she navigates her divorce from her former Made in Chelsea co-star Hugo, 39.
The couple, who married in 2018, announced their separation in February. They share two daughters: Sienna, six, and Aurelia, four. Millie admitted she had held back from speaking publicly about the ordeal until she was through the worst of it.
“I didn’t want to share about this until I was on the other side,” she said in a candid video on social media. “But recently I had to deal with Aurelia having some really challenging separation anxiety. It was really, really hard.”
The trouble began after Aurelia’s nursery closed down last Christmas, leaving her with half a term at home with no childcare. When Millie eventually found a new nursery, Aurelia – who is due to start school in September – simply refused to go.
“There were a lot of tantrums, crying, kicking, screaming and just refusing to go to nursery,” Millie continued. “Once she was there, she was actually fine. She would have a good time. She was happy within a few minutes after we dropped her.
[But] it was the whole morning from when she woke up, trying to get her dressed, trying to get her to leave the house, and trying to physically get her to nursery was really challenging. She’d be crying, I’d be crying. She would just literally unstrap herself from the buggy and run down the road. It was really scary.”
Things reached crisis point last month. “It got to the point where she was so upset I just stopped sending her to nursery,” she added. “There was about a week where she didn’t go at all, and actually, that kind of made it worse, so I got some help from a child specialist.
“I was advised to get her back to nursery, so I was told only a couple of phrases to say to her so when she was getting upset, I would say, ‘You’re safe. I love you. You’re going to nursery, and you can do this.’ I would just repeat those phrases, but I wouldn’t say anything else. I wouldn’t try to bribe her. I just stuck to those phrases, and tried to stay really calm myself.”
The method was gruelling but it worked. “It took about four days of taking her to nursery. I had to carry her to the nursery, kicking and screaming, which felt horrible, and I felt awful while I was doing it,” Millie added.
“But after four days, she was totally fine again. She just, on the fifth day, woke up that morning, and she was like, mummy, I want to go to nursery today. And it was the biggest relief.”
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