Andrea McLean has revealed she didn't set out to share she had suffered a nervous breakdown on live television back in May 2020, but she tells us she is glad she did in the end.
The 52-year-old opened about having a nervous breakdown before the coronavirus lockdown in 2019 while speaking openly with her Loose Women co-presenters.
And Andrea admits she even "forgot" she was opening up in front of the whole nation. “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." Andrea said that speaking out about her breakdown helped her recognise there is still a stigma and shame around women not being able to put their hands up when they're struggling. “You’ve overheated, you’ve broken down.
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