Ruth Langsford had therapy over Eamonn Holmes – ‘I was crying so much’
Ruth Langsford has revealed how counselling was the “best thing” she could have done for herself following the collapse of her marriage to fellow TV favourite Eamonn Holmes
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Ruth Langsford has revealed how counselling was the “best thing” she could have done for herself following her divorce(Image: INSTAGRAM/happyplaceofficial)
Ruth Langsford has tearfully admitted that she turned to therapy to deal with her divorce from Eamonn Holmes. The Loose Women anchor, 66, and her former This Morning co-host Eamonn announced their plans to divorce in 2024 and, at the behest of a close friend, ended up seeking professional help.
Ruth was initially reluctant to have counselling over the collapse of her marriage and cried her way through the first three sessions but then decided it was the “best thing” she could have done for herself in the wake of it all.
Asked what got her through the whole ordeal, she said: “Friends, first and foremost. I’ve got an amazing group of friends, and counselling. Yeah, therapy, which I hadn’t done before and that was through a very good friend who said to me ‘Would you think about it?’
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Ruth shared how her counsellor was ‘blunt’ with her in the initial stages (Image: INSTAGRAM/happyplaceofficial)
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The Loose Women star said she had to realise her ‘marriage was over’ if she wanted to move on (Image: INSTAGRAM/happyplaceofficial)
“She had a therapist going through her divorce years ago and I was like ‘Well, I don’t need a therapist to tell me I’m sad that my marriage has ended!’ She went on , and on, and set up this meeting.
“It was the best thing I’ve ever done. The thing with therapy is that she doesn’t know us. Yes, she’s seen Eamonn and I on the TV but she doesn’t know us – at all. She doesn’t take sides at all, she just lets me talk and leads you in certain directions. I was doing it once a week, sometimes twice a week and now it’s much less but still there. She says I can call her anytime and I always have her words, these little mantras in.
Speaking on the Happy Place podcast, she told host Fearne Cotton: “She said ‘I only saw the top of your head for the first three sessions,’ because I was crying so much.
“But one of the first things she said to me was ‘Your marriage is over,’ it was quite blunt. I said ‘I know,’ and she said ‘Well, until you accept that, you’re not going to find it easy to move on.’ That stuck with me. Once you accept it, and go ‘The fight’s over, isn’t it?'”
Ruth, who recently released her memoir Feeling Fabulous, recently admitted she wasn’t ready to starting to move on from her split but wasn’t quite ready to commit to dating again, but she was yet to set any “limits” on anything/
She said: “If I said to you ‘I’m definitely not interested in men my age or older’, there might be the most fabulous man who’s 75 that I think ‘wow!’. The answer is I have not set any limits on anything. That’s my rule in life. Open mind, open heart, no limits, carry on, find the jot and who knows what will happen.
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Ruth and Eamonn, who have son Jack together, had been in a relationship for eight years when they tied the knot in 2010
In an interview with Woman magazine, Ruth went on to say she was not quite ready for friends to set her up on dates yet but she was moving on from her split.
“I’m a very independent person, always have been. So I’m not afraid of being on my own or living alone. And there are times when I positively enjoy it, a quiet house, do what you like, get up when you want, watch what you want, eat what you want. So I’m not making any plans. I’m not doing the kind of, ‘I will never live with another person. I will never have a relationship. I’ll never get married. I’ll never do this. I’ll never do that’. Never say never!”
Eamonn began a new relationship with girlfriend Katie Alexander shortly after the split, and they regularly attend events and have been photographed on holiday together.
