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Andrea McLean says ‘bravest’ moment of her life was quitting Loose Women

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When Andrea McLean walked on to the Loose Women set in May 2020, she had no idea she was about to bare her soul on live TV. Under the glare of the studio lights, the 52-year-old found herself opening up about having a nervous breakdown - something that she had previously only discussed with her friends and her fellow panellists.

But despite her fear of the viewers knowing what she had been through, Andrea said it felt therapeutic to be honest and she could finally start to come to terms with her ordeal. “Like most things in my life that I’ve been open about, it happened accidentally,” she says. “I can’t remember who asked me but they said, ‘How are you coping with it [the Covid lockdown]?’ And I said, ‘Well, I’m really glad that last year, I had a breakdown.

I’ve spent a year building my mental strength back up so that I’m actually in the best place I could possibly be to cope with something like a pandemic.’ And it kind of came out my mouth before I realised I was telling the whole world that I had a breakdown. “You’ve overheated, you’ve broken down.

We’re all just human beings. And I think I’m actually really glad I said it because we need to be more open about the fact that there are moments in our lives when we aren’t coping.

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