Strictly‘s Wynne Evans has discovered love once more after the breakdown of his 16-year marriage left him considering suicide.
The opera singer, 52, who’s competing on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing, has been in a relationship with occasions supervisor Liz Brookes, 50, since earlier this yr.
Wynne beforehand revealed he hit ‘all-time low’ within the midst of his depression, stemming from the top of his marriage to Tanwen, the mom of his two kids, in 2016.
However Wynne is now in a relationship with health fanatic Liz – who is alleged to have helped him lose weight forward of Strictly.
A supply informed The Sun: ‘Wynne and Liz met at an occasion and are taking issues gradual, however he’s enthusiastic about the place the connection would possibly go.
Strictly ‘s Wynne Evans has discovered love once more after the breakdown of his 16-year marriage left him considering suicide, The Solar revealed on Wednesday
The opera singer, 52, who’s competing on this yr’s Strictly Come Dancing, has been in a relationship with occasions supervisor Liz Brookes, 50, since earlier this yr
‘He’s in a significantly better place now than when his marriage ended. It is like night time and day — and he’s so comfortable.’
Away from the digicam, Wynne was struggling along with his psychological well being and battled despair and loneliness for years earlier than opening up about his struggles in a bid to assist others.
To mark the beginning of Psychological Well being Consciousness Week, Wynne informed BBC Radio Wales of the cut up: ‘It was virtually like grief, however you possibly can’t grieve for any individual that is nonetheless there.
‘So, it actually affected my psychological well being, my confidence and my ego – it completely modified me as an individual.’
Wynn continued: ‘It made me very conscious of being alone. And, despite the fact that I used to be solely 46, I had this irrational worry of dying alone. I had very darkish ideas and really darkish days the place I’d ponder all types of horrible issues.
‘I believe it’s apparent what I’m saying, however I don’t wish to say it as a result of some folks discover it distressing. I am tremendous to speak about it now, however at the moment nothing would assist me. I realised that I needed my life to be over and I did some silly issues.’
Wynne shared that, realising he wanted assist, he booked to see a psychiatrist and started taking medicine.
He additionally stated that contemporary air and train help him in conserving the despair at bay, however readily acknowledged that this may occasionally not work for everybody.
Wynne is now in a relationship with health fanatic Liz – who is alleged to have helped him drop some weight forward of Strictly
Wynne is understood and beloved by thousands and thousands within the UK for portraying Italian tenor Gio Compario, the previous face of GoCompare, a Welsh monetary companies comparability firm
During an appearance on This Morning that April, Wynne stated: ‘I’ve at all times been fats, I believed ”I’ve gotta do one thing”.
‘I used to be having hassle washing and getting up the steps. My psychological well being hasn’t been nice within the final 5 – 6 years, and it actually helped.’
The daddy-of-two went on to say that he continued engaged on the radio throughout the tough time: ‘The strapline of my present is, “cheering Wales up by one o’clock,” however I used to be going via the worst despair, scientific despair’.
‘I’d take into consideration (suicide), I’d try to motion it… I could not see a manner out; I could not see a manner of ever being comfortable once more.’
Wynne revealed he had misplaced greater than seven stone after hitting ‘all-time low’ within the midst of his despair, stemming from the top of his marriage to Tanwen in 2016 (proper in 2021)
In a chat with Thoughts – the psychological well being charity – he defined: ‘On paper I had the whole lot, a very good job, I used to be on the radio day-after-day, I labored for GoCompare…
‘However the actuality was very completely different, I felt alone, I may really feel alone in a room full of individuals.’
He additionally provided tips about coping mechanisms for these struggling, saying: ‘It’s the tiny issues that assist, it’s a tiny factor to only choose up the telephone or pop subsequent door and ask “How are you?”, it is tiny, nevertheless it’s so necessary’.
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