Roman Kemp says 'I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!' “saved” his life.
Roman Kemp says I'm A Celeb saved his life
The 'Capital Breakfast Show’ radio DJ appeared on the ITV reality show in 2019, and he found an “amazing” therapist who “helped save” him, thanks to the programme.
The 29-year-old broadcaster told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: “This image people have of laying down on a long black leather chair, it’s not that.
"Just before I went into 'I’m A Celeb' there was one who was amazing. She was part of the reason that saved my life and it was ITV and 'I’m A Celeb' who gave me her. I struggled hugely when I came out of there."
Roman has admitted writing his new book ‘Are You Really OK?’ - part self-help, part memoir - was “like therapy”.
The star said: “Doing this book has been like therapy. I found myself crying as I retold parts of my life - not parts that were even sad but memories and talking about them.
“I’ve been on antidepressants since I was 15 and I take them every day. I am very much up and down. I’ve done all sorts of things in terms of therapy.
“If there are times when I have anxiety or panic attacks, I will go to different types of therapists. The psychotherapist was amazing.
“I kept myself in a car for 20 minutes the other day as I thought I was going to have a panic attack.
“When I’m on stage or on air for four hours it’s incredible - I’m transported to being a kid, but a red carpet is so weird.
“It’s like some weird film but I don’t want to be owned by that. I want my own life."
Roman - who is the son of 80s pop legends Martin and Shirlie Kemp, who were in Spandau Ballet and Shirlie and Pepsi respectively - detailed a spat between his mum and his godfather George Michael, who wanted to stop her moving their family to Los Angeles because it would “ruin” him and his sister, Harley, now 33.
He said: “My relationship with fame is skewed by growing up as George Michael’s godson.
“I always remember this huge argument between him and my mum - the biggest they had actually.
“Mum said, ‘We are moving to LA,’ and he said, ‘No, that will ruin your kids’.
“He didn’t care about them, he cared about me and my sister, Harley. He was like, ‘Fame and that world is not what they should aspire to.' "
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