TV star Angela Scanlon has opened up about being “riddled” with anxiety when she landed a job hosting BBC’s The One Show.
The flame-haired beauty recalled a period of peak anxiety after landing the main presenting gig on the hit afternoon show.
The mum-of-two revealed in her new book, Joyrider, she was frantic at having to deal with her anxiety in private, instead of telling her production team.
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She said: “It was too late to backtrack, so I spent a long and lonely stint never once expressing fear or asking for the help of support I so desperately needed.
“I had built myself a little cage and wouldn’t let anyone in.
“The team were amazing, but I was riddled with anxiety.”
She said she felt the “reluctance” to ask for help at the time, saying she didn’t know what she needed.
“That reluctance or inability to ask for help. Actually, I don’t even know if reluctance is the right word, I just think I didn’t really know what I needed at all, I don’t know myself very well, truthfully,” she told this week's issue of Woman’s Way magazine.
“That happened on The One Show and it happened again, probably in a more vulnerable state when I had my daughter – feeling like I should have it all together, I should know what I’m doing, and not really being able to show those cracks that are very human but felt failings on my behalf,” she added.
