Ruth Langsford has candidly revealed that she turned to therapy following her split from Eamonn Holmes at the behest of a friend who had also been through a divoce
Ruth Langsford’s friend begged her to have therapy following her split from Eamonn Holmes. The Loose Women anchor, 54, and her former This Morning co-host Eamonn announced their plans to divorce a little over two years ago and she has now addressed the professional help she sought to deal with it.
But the TV favourite, who has 23-year-old son Jack with Eamonn, was initially apprehensive about the idea of counselling to deal with things, although she later found that it was the “best thing” she could have done and is still doing it now.
She said: “I’ve had counselling and its the best thing I ever did. All the situations and other things have come up and that was through a friend of mine who said, ‘Would you please maybe think about seeing my counsellor?’
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“And she had helped her through a very difficult divorce. And I went, ‘I don’t need to see a counsellor, to tell me I’m sad…’ Anyway, she pecked my head for so long. Eventually I said yes to shut her up, to be honest. I went, ‘Fine, OK!'”
Speaking to Rylan Clark on BBC Radio 2, she added: “It’s the best thing I ever did and I’m still doing it. With your friends they’re always on your side really and they will stand by you whatever decisions you make or however you’re feeling, they’ll hold you up.”
Ruth noted that the way a counsellor approaches things can be “very different” to anyone else who knows the individual, and she found that ultimately helped things in the long run.
She said: “A counsellor is very different, they look at the bigger picture, they don’t know you and they never tell you what to do. She’s never told me what to do, she’s just guided me to think in different ways about things.
‘Lots of people have picked up on this saying that she said to me, which was, ‘Find your light…’ Everything felt so dark and she said, ‘Just use that energy that your feeling anger and sadness, try and bring that energy here and find your light.”
Ruth, who recently released her memoir Feeling Fabulous, recently admitted she wasn’t ready to starting to move on from her split but wasn’t quite ready to commit to dating again, but she was yet to set any “limits” on anything/
She said: “If I said to you ‘I’m definitely not interested in men my age or older’, there might be the most fabulous man who’s 75 that I think ‘wow!’. The answer is I have not set any limits on anything. That’s my rule in life. Open mind, open heart, no limits, carry on, find the jot and who knows what will happen.
In an interview with Woman magazine, Ruth went on to say she was not quite ready for friends to set her up on dates yet but she was moving on from her split.
“I’m a very independent person, always have been. So I’m not afraid of being on my own or living alone. And there are times when I positively enjoy it, a quiet house, do what you like, get up when you want, watch what you want, eat what you want. So I’m not making any plans. I’m not doing the kind of, ‘I will never live with another person. I will never have a relationship. I’ll never get married. I’ll never do this. I’ll never do that’. Never say never!”
Eamonn began a new relationship with girlfriend Katie Alexander shortly after the split, and they regularly attend events and have been photographed on holiday together.
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