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Peter Andre has admitted that he felt ‘he couldn’t talk to anyone’ after suffering a mental breakdown during the height of his career.
The British-Australian singer and TV personality, 51, started in the mid-1990s thanks to popular songs such as Mysterious Girl, Flava, and I Feel You.
After dropping off the charts at the turn of the millennium, Peter returned to the limelight after appearing on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here in 2004.
But before he returned, he has now revealed that he suffered a breakdown in the late 90s which, he now realises, lasted until the 2010s.
Furthermore, he has also admitted that he felt completely alone after going to doctors and professionals who didn’t seem to know how to help him.
Writing in OK Magazine, she said: ‘I remember having my first breakdown in the 90s and the years that followed were horrible. I felt like I couldn’t talk to anyone because it was taboo.
‘Back then, you would go to a doctor and sometimes they wouldn’t know what to do,’ the father of five revealed in the highly personal column on Monday.
Writing in another column for New Magazine, he admitted that he suffered from the breakdown long after he first came on: ‘My breakdown lasted a long time. I only started to get through it when I got to my 40s.’
He continued: ‘I think I’m lost – I was recovering, then my brother Andrew died and that triggered a lot of things – but the best thing is, there’s a lot of help available now.’
The Insania hitmaker – who has Junior, 18, and Princess, 16, with first wife Katie Price and Amelia, 10, Theo, six, and six-month-old Arabella with wife Emily – wants to make sure his children don’t suffer in silence.
‘I always encourage my children to be open about how they feel. All the time I’ll say, ‘Do you want to sit and talk about anything?’ I never want my children to experience [what I went through].’
Between 1998 and 2004, Peter went through a six-year hiatus from the music and television industries, having been involved in talent shows and the pop world from the late 1980s.
He first rose to fame in 1989 after appearing on the Australian talent show New Faces, where he secured a recording contract worth more than £100,000.
In the early 1990s, he was sent to the UK to work with British music producers in an attempt to launch himself internationally – between 1995 and 1998, he scored two number ones, five more top 10 records, and a number one album in the UK.
After they both competed on I’m A Celebrity, Peter met Katie and the two began dating, marrying in 2005 and having two children together.
They divorced in 2009, with Peter meeting his current wife Emily MacDonagh in 2012, with the couple going on to have three children together – they have been married since 2015.
Peter has spoken in the past about his struggles with anxiety, revealing that he was even hospitalized for a long period when he struggled to deal with panic attacks.
Speaking back in 2020, she said: ‘When you talk to people now, and you talk about anxiety, and you talk about a breakdown, some people look at it as a weakness . Some people look at it as taboo – but the truth is, it’s so real.
‘So many people go through it. I went through it for years. It was a moment, in 1998.’
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