Chloe Madeley hit rock bottom during nightmare stint on Dancing On Ice

9 October 2023

Chloe Madeley hit rock bottom during her nightmare stint on 'Dancing On Ice'.

Chloe Madeley struggled with her mental health during her stint on Dancing On Ice

The 36-year-old daughter of TV presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan was among the contestants on the ITV show back in 2011 when she was 24, and she's revealed the brutal online trolling she received took a serious toll on her mental health and drove her to drink heavily.

According to DailyMail.com, she said: "It felt like people hated me, just for being my parents’ daughter, and got to a point where I was so desperately unhappy I couldn’t function any more.

"‘I couldn’t sleep, I was up all night, either vomiting or drinking, which obviously made everything worse."

Chloe revealed her dad Richard eventually intervened after finding her in a dreadful state and he got her the help she needed. She went on: "My dad found me on the kitchen floor one morning, at my worst, and said, “Look, you need help. I’m not a doctor. We don’t know how to help you. But there are people who are qualified and paid to help you. ‘So let’s find them and get you some support.” It got to the point where I was desperately unhappy. I’m so grateful to him."

Chloe was diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and Richard made sure she had therapy to deal with her issues. She added: "He got me into therapy - cognitive behavioural and talking therapy - which pulled me back into reality. It helped so much, I still have therapy now."

She added that as well as therapy, she turned to working out to ease her mental health struggles and she credits weight-training with helping her deal with her anxiety in a healthy way.

Chloe recently revealed she deals with trolling in a new way now. She told The Sun: “I think we all deal with it differently, sometimes I respond. "I’m not a big believer that you should take the high ground and stay quiet. "I think it’s important to set an example to other people who are reading my stuff or watching my stuff, that it’s okay to stick up for yourself and it doesn’t make you a weak person, sometimes it makes you a strong, capable and self-aware person. “I don’t have any issues sticking up for myself sometimes, a lot of the time I ignore it."