I’m A Celebrity’s Seann Walsh has opened up about his struggles and that cheating scandal
(Picture: ITV)I’m A Celebrity’s Seann Walsh says growing up with a heroin-addict dad had a huge effect on him and believes it is why he has always struggled to have structure in his life.
The 36-year-old comedian says he has attempted to address his issues over the years, including through therapy sessions after he found himself caught up in the middle of a kissing scandal when taking part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2018.
Walsh’s career was left in tatters after he was pictured kissing professional dancer Katya Jones, 33, despite having a girlfriend at the time, Rebecca Humphries, and Jones was married to fellow pro-dancer Neil Jones, 40.
Since then, he has ditched alcohol, worked on turning his life around, and is now preparing to become a dad for the first time after announcing in October that his girlfriend of three years, Grace Adderley, is pregnant.
According to the Mirror, he said: “This idea of structure in my life, this was one of the things I had to grapple with, after the Strictly stuff, you kind of realise that life couldn’t continue the way it was. Something had to give.
“The booze had to go and I had to try to rebuild my life and I went to therapy and therapy was about trying to find order and structure and all this stuff. That can be eye-rolling at times, if you’re talking about it and listening to it.
“But that thing of finding structure you realise, of course, that came from having a dad who was a heroin addict. If your dad’s a heroin addict, you’re not going to be someone who wakes up in the morning and does a to-do list. That organisation isn’t going to be there.”
Walsh was a surprise addition to this year’s series of I’m A Celebrity alongside former UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
He has said that he hopes his appearance on the show will help to “draw a line” under his past so that he can finally move forward.
