Matt Willis feared Emma would never trust him after he 'screwed up'
dailyrecord.co.ukMatt Willis feared his wife and Love Is Blind: UK co-host Emma Willis would never trust him again after his last relapse.Busted star Matt and Big Brother host Emma have been married for over 16 years now during which time the musician has battled addiction with alcohol and cannabis.Speaking on his On The Mend podcast, Matt, 41, opened up about the guilt he felt during his last relapse.
He last relapsed in 2016, where he would snort 6g of cocaine a day.He told Emma, 48, to “get out while she still could” but she refused, saying she wanted to “help” Matt and “believed” he could “help himself”.Matt got over the guilt of relapse by “putting in the time” but said it was something he “wished he’d not done”.He said: “I put my family through something I never wanted to and that can eat you up if you want it to.
That can derail you, you know, I’m not willing to let that [happen], so I put work in, it all comes from action.“I hear about it all the time, and I see it all the time, which is this pity party thing that an addict loves.
We love ‘poor me, pour me another drink’ and that is a very enticing way to feel and the guilt of relapse can be a big thing there.
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