After going through a public split, Christine McGuinness opened up about her ‘hardest year ever’ after begging her doctor for help to cope with all the changes
Christine McGuinness has candidly opened up about her “hardest year” after her divorce from Paddy McGuinness. The mum-of-three confessed how she has been “begging” her doctor to help her as she couldn’t cope with all the changes.
The 37-year-old finalised her divorce from the Top Gear host, 52, last year after 11 years of marriage, and has said she has been getting to grips with her newly single life – as well as trying to keep her children out of the issues she has been facing.
Earlier this year, she appeared on Celebs Go Dating in a bid to put herself back out there and explore new connections, but she quit the show midway through filming as she wanted to “go home to her children”.
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Speaking to The Mirror, Christine said: “This year has been difficult, I’ve just come off my ADHD meds after being on them for the past year after I begged my doctor for help. I just couldn’t cope with all the changes with the divorce, the amount of attention around my personal life and having to think about my children and how all of this is going to affect them.”
Due to the impacts on the changes to her family life, Christine detailed how she had to think about whether she wants to remain in the spotlight or not in order to protect her three children, twins Leo and Penelope and daughter Felicity. “I’ve had to think if I am in the right industry, and if I can continue.
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“It may be what I enjoy and love, but when i think about my children and how the attention is going to affect their lives I have questioned it and if it’s right for me.”
However she said they will see clips of her on TV and will tell her “mummy you look amazing” and gushed about how innocent her three children are. “They are so innocent and gorgeous and happy and they are so unaware of stuff, I think I just get into a panic sometimes and I over worry.”
Paddy and Christine, though no longer a couple, have put their family first by co-parenting harmoniously and they have been extremely open about how their three children have all been diagnosed with autism. Before their split, they released an informative documentary on the BBC, Our Family And Autism, detailing how they coped with the three diagnoses.
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