Alex Jones has opened up about how difficult it was to see her beloved husband Charlie Thompson suffer through a battle with mental health. The One Show presenter, 47, is married to insurance Broker Charlie, and the pair share three children together. Alex recently revealed that her husband 'wasn't very well' last year and suffered through a terrible period of bad mental health which impacted her whole family who were left concerned.
Charlie suffered mentally after he was diagnosed with viral meningitis and Lyme Disease. The BBC star has now shared more heartbreaking details, admitting that she didn't know what to do as she watched her husband suffer. Speaking on Fearne Cotton's podcast Happy Place, Alex bravely detailed how the ordeal impacted her mentally and emotionally.
For the sake of her husband's privacy, Alex didn't share too much detail about his battle with mental health, but she told podcast host Fearne: "Everybody has periods where you just don't feel great. I mean going back to my late 20s - woah. Looking back now, that was a mess.
And I've talked before, my husband has suffered in the past." Podcast host Fearne then replied: "It's your husband's story, we don't need to get into your husband, but as you just touched on, he had a bad patch of mental health. It's hard as a partner that you can't fix them.
That's quite a frustrating feeling. How did you navigate that?" To which Alex shared: "You're right. I went quite 1980s and was like - right, come on.
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