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ast week, Susannah
Constantine, 57,- who found fame
presenting TV makeover
programme What Not To
We a r with Trinny Woodall - revealed the dark places
her crippling anxiety has
taken her in the past.
‘There was certainly a period
in my life where I’d wake up,
take the children to school and...
pray that my car would be hit by
a lorry or something, so that
I could put an end to it all...’
she confessed shockingly on
ITV’s This Morning.
‘It was just a thought that
flashed through my mind, but it
was... something to take the pain
away, and then it would go.’
The mum-of-three (Susannah
has Joe, 19, Esme, 17, and Cece,
15, with Danish husband Sten
Bertelsen) admitted her anxiety
began as a child at boarding
school, when troubling thoughts
left her ‘lonely’ – but, as a ‘happy’
adult, they disturbed her.
‘Who am I to feel like this?’
she said. ‘I’m so lucky I’ve got
a family, a roof over my head,
a husband who loves me, and
three gorgeous children. What
have I got to be anxious about?
That almost made it worse.’
Susannah’s late mother, who,
she has said previously ‘was in
and out of psychiatric hospitals’,
suffered from bipolar disorder.
Susannah recalled, ‘Waking
up as a child, every morning
I’d be drenched in sweat. My
mother was a manic depressive.
I guess I’d be scared of how she
would be today. Was I going to be
abandoned to her illness again?’
These days, Susannah knows
how to deal with her symptoms.
‘I stopped drinking five years
ago and I eat healthily. I
haven’t sought professional
help as such, it’s got to
come from within you.
‘I now look at it as a
haunting. This ghost
of anxiety has come
to visit me, and it’s
going to pass.’● You can contact
the mental health
charity, Mind, on
0300 123 3393,
or text 86463.Susannah Constantine
has opened up about her
secret lifelong battle
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‘What have I got to be
anxious about? That
almost made it worse’
Susannah revealed
her anxiety battle
on This MorningBack in the 90s
with co-host Trinny