Grant Hall thinks Chloe Goodman saved his life.
Chloe Goodman and Grant Hall (c) Instagram
The 28-year-old football player recently got engaged to Chole, 26, and the reality TV star thinks they found each other at the perfect time in their lives.
Chloe - who is expecting her first child with Grant - recalled: "We met at a really bad time in our lives; I had just broken up with my previous fiance and also lost a child. I moved back to my Brighton home town and had to pack up and close my clinic and start again.
"[Grant] had just gone through a break-up as well and was dealing with a terrible time in terms of football - he didn't know if he was going to play again. So we were both going through a really bad time around the same time."
Chloe now admits she didn't quite appreciate the severity of Grant's struggles at that moment.
She told The Sun Online: "He went through 19 months of pure hell, and I live with him and I didn't know how bad he was. It made me feel like, as a partner, that I had let him down when it all came out.
"I knew he was bad, but I had no idea the extent of how bad it was."
Despite this, Grant credits the former 'Celebrity Big Brother' star with helping him through his dark times.
He shared: "In a way, she did save my life, because at that point in time my injury was really bad so I thought I might not play again.
"I was going out five, six weeks in a row, using it as a coping mechanism to distract myself from my injury, just drinking and trying to forget about football because I didn't want to be around it, and that's when I met Chlo.
"I got back on track, we started keeping busy, in a way she did actually save me. She has been great, she has opened my eyes."
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