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Hannah Rees

The One Show: Viewers praise Joe Wicks as he talks about his 'chaotic' upbringing

Joe Wicks appeared on The One Show to talk about his new documentary film. The fitness coach's appeared on the show to talk about his new documentary film, Facing My Childhood.

The film explores the scale of parental mental health issues and how his own childhood was affected by his parent's battles with mental health. Wicks says that parents messaged him to share the positive impact PE with Joe had on their mental health. This led him to think about his own upbringing.

On the show, Wicks talked about his dad's struggles with drug addiction and his mum's battles with severe OCD and how she would "excessively clean, two or three times a day". He said: "It was very chaotic, manic, destructive kind of upbringing and I've come through that."

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