Peter Andre: ‘Doctors didn’t know what to do with me when I had a breakdown’

Peter Andre has admitted to feeling similar helium ‘couldn’t speech to anyone’ aft suffering a intelligence breakdown during the tallness of his career.

The British-Australian vocalist and TV personality, 51, broke retired successful the mid-1990s acknowledgment to chart-topping hits similar Mysterious Girl, Flava, and I Feel You.

After dropping disconnected the charts astir the crook of the millennium, Peter returned to the limelight aft appearing connected I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here successful 2004.

But earlier his return, he’s present revealed that helium suffered a breakdown successful the precocious 90s that, helium present realises, lasted each the mode done to the 2010s.

On apical of that, he’s besides confessed to feeling wholly unsocial aft going to doctors and professionals who didn’t look to cognize however to assistance him.

Writing successful OK Magazine, helium said: ‘I retrieve having my archetypal breakdown successful the 90s and the years that followed were horrific. I felt similar I couldn’t speech to anyone due to the fact that it was taboo.

‘Back then, you’d spell to a doc and sometimes they wouldn’t cognize what to do,’ the dad-of-five revealed successful the highly idiosyncratic file connected Monday.

Writing successful different file for New Magazine, helium admitted to suffering from the breakdown for agelong after it initially came on: ‘My breakdown lasted a agelong time. It was lone erstwhile I got to my 40s that I genuinely started to travel done it.’

He continued: ‘I deliberation I was mislaid – I was getting better, past my member Andrew passed distant and that triggered a batch of things – but the champion happening is, there’s a batch of assistance retired determination now.’

The Insania hitmaker – who has Junior, 18, and Princess, 16, with archetypal wife Katie Price and Amelia, 10, Theo, six, and six-month-old Arabella with woman Emily – wants to marque definite his children don’t endure successful silence.

‘I ever promote each my kids to beryllium unfastened astir however they feel. All the clip I’ll say, ‘Do you privation to beryllium and speech astir anything?’ I ne'er privation my kids to acquisition [what I went through].’

Between 1998 and 2004, Peter went done a six-year interruption from the euphony and TV industries, having been progressive successful endowment shows and the popular satellite from the precocious 1980s.

He initially roseate to fame successful 1989 aft appearing connected the Australian endowment amusement New Faces, wherever helium secured a signaling declaration worthy much than £100,000.

In the aboriginal 1990s, helium was sent to the UK to enactment with British euphony producers successful an effort to motorboat himself internationally – betwixt 1995 and 1998, helium scored 2 fig ones, 5 much apical 10 hits, and a UK fig 1 album.

After they some competed connected I’m A Celebrity, Peter met Katie and the 2 began dating, yet marrying successful 2005 and having 2 children together.

They divorced successful 2009, with Peter gathering existent woman Emily MacDonagh successful 2012, with the mates going connected to person 3 children unneurotic – they’ve been joined since 2015.

Peter has antecedently opened up about his struggles with anxiety, revealing that helium was adjacent hospitalised for a agelong erstwhile helium struggled to woody with panic attacks.

Speaking backmost successful 2020, helium said: ‘When you speech to radical now, and you speech astir anxiety, and you speech astir breakdowns, immoderate radical look astatine it similar a weakness. Some radical look astatine it similar a taboo – but the information is, it’s truthful real.

‘So galore radical are going done it. I went done it for years. It was a moment, it was successful 1998.’

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