THE One Show's Alex Jones has opened up about what it was like for her when her hubby went through his recent mental health struggle. While featuring on Fearne Cotton's podcast Happy Place, the BBC presenter admitted she 'didn't know what to do' when Charlie Thompson was suffering. 3 Alex Jones has opened up about her reaction to her husband's mental health struggles Credit: instagram/@alexjonesthomson 3 The One Show presenter shared she didn't know how to help her partner Credit: instagram/@alexjonesthomson 3 Charlie had a difficult time mentally after suffering from Lyme disease Credit: instagram/@alexjonesthomson Without disclosing too much about what her husband experienced for the sake of his privacy, Alex shared what it was like for her watching him go through it.
"Everybody has periods where you just don't feel great," she said. "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." Fearne responded: "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?" Alex sighed: "You're right. I went quite 1980s and was like - right, come on.
That was the way I had been brought up. Snap out of it. "It was grim.
I didn't know what to do. In general, I think people don't reach out when they're in despair." Most .