After begging her doctor for help with all the changes, Christine McGuinness admitted that her “happy year” was the “hardest year ever” and revealed what she had experienced.
Christine McGuinness walks the red carpet for Pride of Britain 2025.
Christine McGuinness has candidly opened up about her “hardest year” after her divorce from Paddy McGuinness. The mum-of-three confessed how she has been “begging” her doctor to help her as she couldn’t cope with all the changes.
The 37-year-old finalised her divorce from the Top Gear host, 52, last year after 11 years of marriage, and has said she has been getting to grips with her newly single life – as well as trying to keep her children out of the issues she has been facing.
She made a first appearance on Celebs Go Dating earlier this year in an effort to re-enter her network and find new friends, but she abruptly stopped filming because she wanted to “go home to her children.”
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Speaking to The Mirror, Christine said: “This year has been difficult, I’ve just come off my ADHD meds after being on them for the past year after I begged my doctor for help. I just couldn’t cope with all the changes with the divorce, the amount of attention around my personal life and having to think about my children and how all of this is going to affect them.”
In light of the changes to her family life, Christine described how she had to consider whether or not she wanted to protect her three children, twins Leo and Penelope, and Felicity. I had to consider whether I was in the right industry or whether I could stay.
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Although it may be what I enjoy and cherish, I have questions about it and whether it’s right for me when I consider my children and how their lives will be impacted by it.
She reportedly gushed about the innocence of her three children and said they would watch video of her on television and that they would say, “Mummy, you look amazing.” They are so innocent, gorgeous, and content, and they are completely unaware of everything. I sometimes feel panicked and overly worried.
Paddy and Christine, though no longer a couple, have put their family first by co-parenting harmoniously and they have been extremely open about how their three children have all been diagnosed with autism. Before their split, they released an informative documentary on the BBC, Our Family And Autism, detailing how they coped with the three diagnoses.
Source: Mirror
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