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I'm A Celebrity's Myleene Klass has a successful career, three beautiful children and a loving partner - but she's overcome a lot of tragedy and heartbreak to get there.
The 45-year-old television presenter has lived through the "worst days of her life", including four miscarriages, a sudden divorce and a difficult relationship with alcohol.
Before Myleene had her youngest son, Apollo, now three, with fiancé Simon Motson, she experienced the overwhelming grief of baby loss.
Speaking on her documentary Miscarriage & Me in 2021, she said: "I remember the despair, grief and anger. And the panic. But it wasn't until I looked back at my diaries that I realised how broken I was."
Myleene was 'broken' grieving the loss of four babies she miscarried (Cameron Laird/REX/Shutterstock)
The television star had a problem with alcohol after her marriage fell apart (GC Images)The former pop singer met her other half Simon on a blind date eight years ago, but before that she experienced a toxic and explosive break-up with ex-husband Graham Quinn.
'I stopped drinking booze on dates and it made life much more exciting'
Myleene confessed to boozing into the early hours of the morning and waking up five hours later to drink more.
She said her problems began when celebrity bodyguard Graham announced he was leaving on her 34th birthday, after two daughters and six months of marriage.
Myleene feared she'd 'lose everything' after ex-husband Graham Quinn left (myleeneklass/Instagram)With dwindling finances and a drink problem spiralling out of control, Myleene said she struggled to cope with her mental health and feared she'd 'lose everything.'
She said on White Wine Question Time podcast in 2019: "I was doing breakfast TV and I went to get out the car and I thought, 'I can't'.
"I was right in the middle of the divorce. And I opened the door, and I couldn't get out the car. I couldn't breathe. Finances were spiralling because I thought, 'I'm going to lose everything.'"
She found love with fiancé Simon and the pair got engaged in 2020 (GC Images)
The couple met on a blind date eight years ago and instantly hit it off (GC Images)Myleene said things got so bad that her friend Lauren Laverne rushed to her house at 4am to check on her.
"That's how low I was," she told the podcast. "I've never ever been in the position where I've had to ask people for help. I didn't want [divorce] to define me, but it did change me irrevocably."
She added: "The humiliation, you've got people looking at you, blaming you without a clue as to what the f**k is going on."
The singer previously vowed never to speak to ex Graham again, amid hints that he'd lied to her.
But Graham hit back on Twitter in 2015, claiming: "I've stayed quiet for three years now but enough is enough."
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