Busted bassist Matt Willis has opened up about a moment early in his relationship with wife Emma, admitting he felt he wasn’t up to the ‘standard’ his wife deserved
Matt Willis has opened up about a struggle earlier in his relationship with wife Emma
Matt Willis admits he felt “hurt” as he opened up about a struggle in his marriage with wife Emma. The Busted bassist married former Big Brother star Emma in 2008, with the couple now sharing three children – Isabelle, Ace and Trixie – together.
Matt, 42, has been open about his struggles with drink and drugs, admitting he first started taking cannabis when he was just 13 years old. In June 2008, he checked into a rehab clinic in a bid to get sober after an ultimatum from Emma.
On his On the Mend podcast, he told guest Spencer Matthews that he worried he wasn’t “living up to her standards” when he first met Emma. The Love is Blind UK host says he was then “driven” to get sober after a heartbreaking realisation.
He said: “There shouldn’t be competition in a marriage, there shouldn’t be competition in a partnership and there isn’t competition in my marriage, don’t get me wrong, but in the beginning part of my relationship, I became very aware that I wasn’t living up to her standard.
“And I wasn’t achieving anywhere near what she was achieving and it hurt me, it did. It really affected me and I was getting sober at the time and I’d been sober for a while maybe and it drove me, it really did.
“It made me go, ‘Do you know what, I need to step the f**k up because she is winning’. It’s not winning against us two, it’s winning at life, and I’m not winning at life. I was like, ‘I need to start winning at life and step my game up.’”
Elsewhere, Matt has previously admitted he is harbouring a “terrible” secret from his children. The musician says he often tells his children he thinks vaping is “stupid,” but has been “secretly” indulging himself in the habit.
Though he is keen to ditch the vice, Matt says he is “massively addicted” to nicotine, having started smoking as a teenager. It prompted him to seek out help from neuroscientist TJ Power, who attempted to get him to quit during a previous podcast episode.
He said he was determined to give up, discarding his vapes and snus – pouches containing powdered tobacco – while bracing himself for what he expected would be “hell” over the coming days. But his resolve quickly crumbled when he spotted vapes backstage at a Busted gig.
Matt said: “I do want to quit vaping. It sounds like excuses, but the reason is that I like it, I really like nicotine, I’m massively addicted to it, like hugely addicted to it, I have smoked since I was 13, 14, and I’ve always had nicotine in my life.
“We did this big thing, I chucked the vapes away, I chucked the snus away, I was like, ‘Right, I’m done, it’s going to be hell for a couple of days’.”
Matt then disclosed that while driving to a Busted concert, another motorist “cut me up in traffic”, causing him to “lose it”. Furious from the incident, he turned up at the venue and recalled that Busted kept vapes on their rider.
He found himself grabbing the vape and slipping back into old habits. Yet this led to a pivotal realisation that his vaping could jeopardise his professional life.
He explained: “And so, that lasted for a couple of weeks and then about four days ago, I was in a vocal call for Cabaret and I realized I’m not going to be able to sustain this with this vaping going on. I’m just not going to be able to do it.”
The star added: “So, I don’t plan on vaping again. I don’t want to do it anymore. I don’t want to have that in my life. It’s embarrassing. It’s terrible for you.”
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