Carrie Bickmore breaks down in tears on air as she details heartbreaking 20-year health battle: 'It makes me extremely uncomfortable' READ MORE: Carrie Bickmore and Tommy Little share exciting news following dating rumours By Stephen Bisset For Daily Mail Australia Published: 03:19, 13 August 2024 | Updated: 03:22, 13 August 2024 e-mail View comments Beloved Aussie radio and TV star Carrie Bickmore has broken down in tears after revealing a private 20-year struggle with anxiety and panic attacks. The heartbreaking admission from the blonde radio star, 43, came during a candid discussion with Tommy Little , 39, on their Carrie and Tommy Hit Network show. 'I've suffered from anxiety and panic attacks since I was about 20,' Carrie admitted to her co-host.
Tommy interjected, telling Carrie that he thought a lot of people listening would be as shocked as he was upon learning about Carrie's struggle, considering her apparent comfortability in the public eye. 'A lot of the time it makes me extremely uncomfortable,' Carrie replied. 'It's hard, actually, to describe what I felt.
It was like shame, I think, [and] embarrassment.' 'I don't think I really fully understood what was going on in my own head. I think talking about it almost made me feel more anxious, so I just kept it in my own head,' she added.
Carrie was then moved to tears as she recounted watching old footage of herself on Rove McManus ' Rove Live, admitting that she was in a 'permanent state of panic' during her time on the hit Network Ten show from 2006 to 2009. Beloved Aussie radio and TV star Carrie Bickmore has broken down in tears after revealing a private 20-year struggle with panic attacks and anxiety 'I just saw in the vision of me on Rove Live, all I could see was anxiety and I was just permanently in a state of panic on that show,' Carrie tearfully revealed. 'I saw that girl in the vision, and I just wanted to reach through the phone and hug her because I was like, "Oh my God, that was terrifying.
" Yet, I also remember it as being such an awesome part of my life. And that's the trickiness with anxiety.' Carrie then admitted every time she appeared in her popular Carrie at the News Desk segment on the show, as well as any radio or TV appearance for 'a good decade', she was on the verge of a full-blown panic attack.
'Sometimes, I'd have the panic attacks while I was on air reading the news and I would disguise it as shortness of breath, or my quavering voice with coughs or laughs or technical difficulties,' she said. Carrie then admitted every time she appeared in her popular Carrie at the News Desk segment on Rove Live, as well as any radio or TV appearance for 'a good decade', she was on the verge of a full-blown panic attack Read More Guess who? TV and radio fan favourite stuns with hilarious throwback video with 'no eyebrows' 'It was all I could think about.' Carrie then revealed that her first panic attack occurred when she was reading the news on Perth radio station 92.
9 when she was 20 years old. 'I had to stop reading the bulletin part the way through and i just pretended that I was having an asthma attack because I didn't really know what to say; I didn't really understand what had actually happened.' Carrie also admitted that she initially wanted to turn down her hosting role on the Project due to her panic attacks.
'I almost said no to The Project because I was so scared of doing something new,' she said. 'I've suffered from anxiety and panic attacks since I was about 20,' Carrie admitted 'There were so many jobs over the time that I've said no to and I look back and I think: "Oh my God, where could that have taken me?" Incredible opportunities because I was worried that something would set me off and that I'd be humiliated forever.' Carrie then revealed it was a desire to 'not let the anxiety win' that helped her to start overcoming it.
'Sometimes I'd want to like lean into the challenge and, and my brain would say: "No, don't let the anxiety win, like you can do this." And that's why I said yes to The Project and ended up doing it for 14 years,' she said. Carrie then revealed it was a desire to 'not let the anxiety win' that helped her to start overcoming it.
Pictured: Carrie Bickmore and Rove McManus in 2012 Channel Ten Carrie Bickmore Tommy Little Share or comment on this article: Carrie Bickmore breaks down in tears on air as she details heartbreaking 20-year health battle: 'It makes me extremely uncomfortable' e-mail Add comment.
