Angela Scanlon reveals that she has sustained a ‘breakdown’ during Charity Trek while she opens about fighting loneliness

Angela Scanlon Brave opened on Thursday about her long -running battle with loneliness – revealing that it became so overwhelming that they suffered a ‘full break’.

The Irish TV presenter, 41, admitted that, despite her busy work schedule, she often feels the bustling family life and large social media, often feels deeply isolated.

Angela, who has two young daughters with husband Roy Horgan, has now revealed that she has hit breaking point during a Coppafeel! Charity Trek in the Himalayas, India Last November.

The former strict star was a team leader during the trip alongside colleague -TV presenter Emma Willis, entrepreneur Sara Davies And Great British bins winner Candice Brown.

Share her emotional story in one Replace Post, Angela said she had hoped to just motivate the female tractors, all of whom had breast cancer.

Only a few days after the challenging trek, she noticed that she was overwhelmed by the emotional intensity of experience.

‘A few days in – I broke. Complete breakdown. Ugly crying in my comforter about Yak theme, “she shared.

She added that she thought at herself at the time: ‘I can’t do this. I’m not the right person. What did I think I thought? How arrogant was I to believe that I am rested to keep these brilliant women in such a time? ‘

Angela remembered that he was awake at night, lame by self -doubt, before he finally realized that she didn’t have to put on a brave face – she just had to show up, exactly as she was.

Thinking about her experience, Angela – mother of Ruby, Seven and Marnie, three – admitted that the loneliness she felt has been gnawing at her for years.

She wrote: ‘I was lonely. Not the cute, “oh I miss my friends” lonely. The Hollow, I have an incredible supporters of 436K people on Instagram, a full family life, a busy working life and still have the feeling that I call a kind of lonely kind of a Lonely call.

“This is not new. It is a feeling that has been on and off for years. Maybe forever. Because technically not alone, I am rarely alone or ever alone.

“I had WhatsApp groups that ping, toddlers, 7-year-old art projects and endless interrogation, dms buzzing, meetings stacked back-to-back.”

After her breakthrough in India, Angela revealed that she decided to launch a Grassroots community called Hot Messers – organizing ‘Hot Mess Walks’ where people could appear without pretension.

She explained: ‘The kind where you pop up in joggers, cry on a couch when needed, and nobody blinks. The kind you don’t have to filter to fit. ‘

Despite her initial fear that no one would show up, Angela’s first walk was a quiet triumph, because women shared their struggles with heartache, loneliness and challenges of motherhood.

“For the first time in a long time I remembered that – really seen – is enough.”

Angela said that she held the second hot mess walk earlier this week, which was ‘double’ of the first and just as powerful – which shows that many others crave the same kind of rough, honest connection.

Last year, Angela discussed her 15-year struggle with eating disorders During an interview on Loose women.

She said about her anorexia and bulimia: ‘It is not necessarily one of the other. They go in Cycli, it can sometimes really feel gloomy. ‘

She added: ‘From my late teenagers or early 20s, I was in a bad place for 15 years. For me the turning point was a friend of mine, who also suffered and said that we will just have the diseases forever.

“And for her it felt like a reassuring, a support in numbers. But for me I really made that idea to have to stay in that very small space for a long time. ‘

It was Angela’s very first appearance in the show, and she later went to Instagram to make jokes that she had beaten her ‘Loose Women Cherry’.

Angela unveiled in 2023 Weekend Magazine She felt a bit like a swan – elegant on the surface while they paddle furiously under it.

She seemed to have it all, with a fast -growing career as one of the most much -needed broadcasters of the UK thanks to the performances in the One Show and as a host of BBC2’s interiors that you made at home, as well as her own chat show in Ireland and a popular podcast.

But Angela was arranged by uncertainty under the facade. She had an eating disorder that started in her teenage years, and against the age of 20 she often survived on black coffee and flourished pineapple.

Her anorexia and bulimia were later replaced by workaholism.

“I think an eating disorder is about trying to control things when everything feels out of strength,” she said.

‘It took me much longer to acknowledge that I had replaced the eating disorder with work because I believed that I had selected myself.

‘I had built a career and a life that I liked. But only later did I realize that when I delayed, the problems were still the same. I think everyone with an addiction will recognize that it is easy to exchange the one for each other. ‘

The result was a sense of emptiness that Angela investigates in her deep personal book Joyrider, in which she not only describes her problems, but also what helped her save – my natural resources of joy and gratitude for the small positives in life.

This is the ‘joyriding’ part of the book, referring to a conscious appearance in a ‘sweeter track’.

Although she was nervous about revealing her vulnerabilities, it has been an empowerment experience that also helped others. “Writing Joyrider was liberating,” she says.

“There was something Cathartisch about it. People think that we can only talk about things when we are ready, but there is something so powerful to talk about it when you are still busy because healing always happens. ‘

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