Drew Barrymore and Adele have spoken up about enduring 'mental breakdowns' and 'paralysing' anxiety attacks after breakups - as Helen Flanagan reveals she was diagnosed with psychosis after 'emotionally struggling' with split

Breakups are notoriously difficult nary matter who you are. As good arsenic nan affectional turmoil, galore will often look nan beingness broadside effects of heartbreak.

Hosts of celebrated faces person been candid astir their harrowing experiences complete nan years - admitting to having had 'nervous breakdowns', worry attacks, and moreover starving themselves. 

This week, Helen Flanagan revealed that aft 'emotionally struggling' pursuing her divided from Scott Sinclair, arsenic good arsenic different individual life hurdles, she thought it would beryllium bully for her to return immoderate ADHD medication.

'But I had a really bad guidance though to nan medicine and it sent maine into a psychosis for a fewer days which I didn't cognize I was in,' she recounted.

She ended her station by stating that she's 'always been honorable connected present and feels successful a really bully happy spot now'. 

Others stars person besides admitted to enduring suicidal thoughts, arsenic good arsenic 'crawling connected nan level and throwing up'.

Here, FEMAIL looks astatine nan times A-listers sewage existent astir nan beingness and intelligence turmoil they faced arsenic a consequence of a surgery heart... 

HELEN FLANAGAN 

Helen Flanagan this week returned to Instagram to springiness a wellness update aft pulling retired of her theatre circuit astatine nan opening of nan year.

The actress, 33, has revealed she was diagnosed pinch psychosis aft suffering a 'bead reaction' to her ADHD medication.

In a lengthy station connected Instagram nan mother of 3 explained she was 'emotionally struggling' pinch her divided from ex Scott Sinclair and nan demands of being a moving azygous mother.  

'So fundamentally I really struggled intelligence wellness wise December/ January,' Helen began her post.

Posting alongside a smiling selfie, Helen continued: 'I felt really not awesome successful my caput complete Christmas and I didn't really consciousness that overmuch different erstwhile I took nan kids distant for caller year. Had a batch of difficult things going connected things I conscionable can't talk astir connected Instagram.'

Helen explained that she was emotion other unit arsenic she rehearsed for her Cluedo 2 tour: 'I felt terrible, truthful I was owed my theatre circuit which I was excited astir truthful erstwhile I came backmost from vacation I thought it was champion for maine to return immoderate medicine truthful I'd consciousness amended and beryllium capable to header amended pinch being a moving azygous mum of 3 and I was emotionally struggling pinch nan break up from nan begetter of my kids.'

'But I had a really bad guidance though to nan medicine ( an ADHD medication) and it sent maine into a psychosis for a fewer days which I didn't cognize I was in.'

'I conscionable emotion my kids truthful overmuch x this bad guidance though was a fewer days earlier rehearsals were starting and sadly I conscionable wasn't mentally good capable to do it.'

'I was heartbroken arsenic I've ever been master arsenic an character but one needed to enactment astatine location and consciousness amended for maine and my kids, pinch nan thief of my astonishing parents ❤️'

She ended her station by stating that 'I've ever been honorable connected present and I consciousness successful a really bully happy spot now. therapy tin beryllium astonishing and I consciousness for illustration I've worked connected myself pinch things that were rather reliable to maine but I consciousness lighter now ✨ anyhow sending emotion and please beryllium kind.'

The prima has antecedently spoken astir their co-parenting arsenic she described it arsenic 'pretty drama-free', insisting they person been doing everything they tin to make things easier for nan kids since their split.

She told The Sun: 'I co-parent pinch Scott. We were together for a agelong time. So he lives pinch his mum successful Bristol and I unrecorded successful Manchester pinch nan kids. I get connected really good pinch Scott's mum.

'I was pinch Scott aged 19-31, truthful that's why I get connected truthful good pinch his mum. So honestly it makes my life truthful easy because we bent retired together. It's really nice. It's beautiful play free arsenic I get connected really good pinch her.

'The kids spot their dada each nan time, they spot their nana a lot. We're ever successful Birmingham a batch to meet pinch nan kids half way.'

Meanwhile Helen has besides been unfastened astir her erstwhile wellness struggles, aft she said out about her conflict pinch postnatal depression, OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and intrusive thoughts, last October. 

She admitted nan conditions had near her successful therapy for a twelvemonth as she 'struggled really badly' aft nan births of 2 of her children. 

DREW BARRYMORE 

After her divorcement from Will Kopelman, Drew, 49, opened up astir having a 'nervous breakdown' and spiraling truthful overmuch that her therapist 'quit' connected her.

'Divorce was my worst fear,' she told You Magazine successful 2021. 'It was thing I ne'er wanted to put my ain children through. 'I felt broken. Truly, honestly broken.

I made immoderate big, sweeping changes to my life and luckily I made them correct earlier nan pandemic because I fearfulness nan spot I would person been successful if I hadn't. I conscionable astir managed to clasp nan chemoreceptor of nan level up earlier it collapsed and past nan pandemic hit.' 

Drew added that she besides had a 'nice long, juice intelligence breakdown'. 

'You person to judge during this rollercoaster of life that you will get backmost up,' she continued. ;But location was thing very precocious stakes astir this arsenic my children were involved. Being a genitor is nan astir important thing, but raising babies is terrifying and breathtaking and very hard.' 

Last year, Drew besides told the Los Angeles Times that she was successful specified a destructive aft nan split, that her therapist Barry Michels said he 'can't do this anymore'.

'It was really astir my drinking,' she explained. 'I said, 'I get it. I've ne'er respected you more. You spot I'm not getting better. And I hope, 1 day, that I tin gain your spot back.''

The E.T. star, who shares daughters Olive, 10, and Frankie, eight, pinch her ex, started drinking heavy erstwhile her matrimony failed.

The Ever After character wanted her daughters to person nan atomic family she didn't person increasing up and her divorcement felt for illustration a individual failure. 

The 50 First Dates character was joined to Kopelman from 2012 to 2016. 

She spent a fewer years post-divorce drinking to numb nan pain. When she started her talk show, The Drew Barrymore Show, successful 2019, she had an epiphany.  

'I deliberation nan opportunity astatine a show for illustration this really deed me,' she said. 'I was like, 'I can't grip this unless I'm successful a really clear place.''

The Santa Clarita Diet alum put down nan vessel aft she changeable nan aviator of her talk show.

And 2 years aft her therapist discontinue connected her, she sewage backmost successful touch pinch him and they started moving together again.

EVA LONGORIA 

Eva Longoria has antecedently admitted that she was astatine her 'unhealthiest' aft her divided from ex-husband Tony Parker, and that she starved herself pursuing nan break-up.

In 2013, nan actress, now 49, gave a candid question and reply to Dr. Oz wherever she revealed that she was truthful heartbroken that she stopped eating.

'I was not eating. I was depressed. I was sad. My fare was coffee,' Eva told nan wellness guru.

The Desperate Housewives prima past added that while she grew thinner, she only received much compliments astir her appearance.

'So group kept saying, 'You look amazing. Divorce agrees pinch you.' Eva recalled. 'And I was like, I don't consciousness good. I person nary energy.'

Eva revenge for divorcement from nan NBA prima successful November 2010 amid claims that he was cheating connected her pinch nan woman of 1 of his erstwhile San Antonio Spurs teammates.

She told Dr. Oz: 'I didn't cognize I was depressed. I mean, I knew it was a sad infinitesimal successful my life, but I wouldn't categorize myself arsenic depressed.'

As her wellness continued to spell downhill aft nan breakdown of her 3 twelvemonth marriage, Eva yet decided to activity help.

She was told by doctors that she 'was conscionable depleted of each vitamin' aft taking emergency tests.

'[The doctor] said it's arsenic if personification took a straw and sucked everything retired of your body. You don't person immoderate iron, your liver's overacting,' Eva said.

'It was for illustration each these things were physically incorrect pinch my body, truthful I had to saturate pinch vitamins and benignant of get backmost connected this track.'

Eva was prescribed a healthier fare and told that for 3 months she should 'cut retired each sweetener and thing that turns into sugar'.

And it did nan trick. '[Afterwards] I had much power than I've ever had,' Eva revealed. 'My palate was different. Things tasted better.'

ADELE

Adele has successful past admitted really she suffered from 'paralysing' panic attacks aft nan fallout from her divorcement from Simon Konecki.

Speaking pinch Oprah connected her One Night Only typical successful 2021, arsenic reported by Prevention, nan singer, 35, explained: 'I had nan astir terrifying worry attacks aft I near my marriage.

'They paralyzed maine wholly and made maine truthful confused because I wouldn't beryllium capable to person immoderate power complete my body.

'But I was alert of that happening because it was benignant of still very overmuch location while my full assemblage was just, like, connected different planet, it felt like.'

The vocalist shares boy Angelo pinch her ex, and has besides earlier revealed she would effort to put connected a brave look until their small boy was sleeping. 

Speaking connected Australian power position Carrie & Tommy successful 2021, Adele revealed 1 of nan songs connected her album, 30, features a voicemail she near for her friend arsenic she suffered pinch a panic attack. 

'It's successful nan opus astir my son, it's astatine nan end, successful nan outro. I was really frightened,' she explained.

'I was having an worry onslaught and I called my champion friend to effort to talk to her to calm maine down but she didn't bloody answer.

'It shines immoderate ray on... I'm talking astir my boy successful nan remainder of nan song, and erstwhile I put him to furniture I tin extremity putting connected that brave face.'  

Adele and kindness CEO Simon announced they were going their abstracted ways successful April 2019 aft 9 years together, and their divorcement was finalised successful March 2021.

While nan brace person remained amicable and co-parent their son, nan symptom Adele felt during their divided was nan inspiration down her album. 

RITA SIMONS 

Rita Simons revealed that she suffered a heavy depression aft her divorcement from her hubby of 14 years Theo Silveston.

The erstwhile EastEnders actress, 47, has successful past spoken retired astir her difficulties aft her stressful break-up, admitting she became 'aggressive, hardened and defensive' pursuing nan split.

Soap prima Rita - who is mother to copy daughters Jaimee and Maiya - and hairdresser Theo went their abstracted ways successful 2018 earlier divorcing 2 years later, pinch nan performer telling The Sun she struggled to get retired of furniture erstwhile she was astatine her worst.

She said: 'When I look back, I utilized to beryllium rather aggressive, hardened and defensive, for illustration I was connected defender each nan time. 

'If thing bad happened, I’d beryllium nan first to go, "Raagh!", and commencement screaming.'

Rita said she utilized to situation her anger astatine nan gym wherever she took up boxing, insisting she doesn't suffer her temper coming and that nan clip distant from her matrimony has 'softened' her. 

Reflecting connected immoderate of her lowest moments, nan erstwhile I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! campmate said: 'It was a heavy sadness, I would opportunity a depression. I couldn’t spot nan wood for nan trees.'

She admitted she didn't want to activity astatine nan clip contempt considering herself a 'grafter', pinch nan prima admitting her intelligence difficulties took a toll connected her beingness health.

'It was each benignant of lumped into 1 large messiness and I was very sick a batch of nan time,' she explained. 

'I mislaid a batch of weight. And I wasn’t telling group astir nan matrimony because though my kids knew, I didn’t want them reference astir it. 

'That conscionable ate maine up, not being capable to show group what was really going on.'

While nan star, who has battled worry and OCD from astir nan property of seven, knew she should return immoderate clip out, she kept herself engaged pinch work, signing up to look in West End philharmonic Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and pantomime Sleeping Beauty aft leaving EastEnders as Roxy Mitchell successful 2017.

After moving solidly for 13 years, Rita's individual struggles took a toll connected her, pinch nan prima admitting she reached situation constituent while touring pinch nan play The House On Cold Hill successful 2019.

She said she considered throwing herself down immoderate stairs connected group arsenic a outcry for help.

Rita is still friends pinch Theo coming but described their divorcement process arsenic 'cold' and 'clinical'.

PALOMA FAITH 

Last month, Paloma Faith has revealed that she had a 'nervous breakdown' pursuing her divided from hubby Leyman Lahcine.

The singer, 42 admitted she finds it difficult to look backmost connected that play successful her life because she was 'so broken' and 'full of guilt and shame' complete nan extremity of their relationship.

Paloma joined Leyman, 36, successful 2017, earlier confirming they'd split successful 2022 aft 9 years together. 

The New York hitmaker and nan French creator - pinch whom she has 2 daughters aged 7 and 2 - parted ways successful 2022.

Speaking astir her narration pinch her ex-partner now, Paloma told The Sun: 'I was truthful broken, honestly - I deliberation I had a tense breakdown.

'I was truthful surgery that my encephalon didn't moreover activity successful that measurement of being conscious. It is difficult for maine to retrieve overmuch of it because I was truthful sad and afloat of guilt and shame.'

Despite her heartbreak, Paloma prima was wished to support an amicable narration pinch her ex for nan liking of their children.

She said: 'You person to spot your ex each nan time. You can't conscionable say, ''This is excessively painful''.

'We are conflict-adverse truthful we were some speedy to effort and beryllium amicable and, arsenic pinch astir things successful life, if you dress it for agelong capable it becomes true.'

KATY PERRY 

Katy Perry considered taking her ain life pursuing her 2017 divided from Orlando Bloom and her medium Witness' mediocre floor plan performance.

The singer, 39, successful 2020 admitted she was astatine stone bottommost aft debased moments successful some her individual and master lives. 

She told radio position SiriusXM CBC: 'My profession was connected this trajectory erstwhile it was going up, up and up and past I had nan smallest shift, not that immense from an extracurricular perspective. But for maine it was seismic.

'I had fixed truthful overmuch out, and it virtually collapsed maine successful half. I had surgery up pinch my boyfriend, who is now my babe daddy-to-be. 

'And past I was excited astir flying precocious disconnected nan adjacent record. But nan validation did not make maine high, and truthful I conscionable crashed.'

The star, who grew up pinch parents who were Pentecostal pastors, went connected to uncover that her religion helped her heal complete time. 

She continued: 'It was truthful important for maine to beryllium surgery truthful that I could find my wholeness successful a full different way. And beryllium much dimensional than conscionable surviving my life for illustration a thirsty popular prima each nan time. 

'Gratitude is astir apt nan point that saved my life, because if I did not find that I would person wallowed successful my ain sadness and astir apt conscionable jumped. 

'But I recovered nan ways to beryllium grateful. If it gets really, really difficult I locomotion astir and say, "I americium grateful, I americium grateful!"; moreover though I americium successful a sh***y mood.' 

The California autochthonal went connected to uncover that she is now successful a overmuch amended spot aft a years of dealing pinch intelligence wellness issues.

She said: 'Hope has ever been an action for me, because of my narration pinch God and thing that is bigger than me. Of people if I americium nan 1 controlling my destiny I americium going to beryllium nan 1 driving it into nan ground.

'My dream is that thing bigger than maine created maine for a intent and created maine for a reason, and that I’m not disposable, and that each personification that’s been created has a purpose.'

Katy and Orlando were first linked erstwhile they were seen flirting astatine nan Golden Globe Awards successful January 2016, and went nationalist pinch their narration a fewer months later successful May astatine nan Cannes Film Festival.  

The mates parted ways conscionable complete a twelvemonth later successful March 2017, but nan divided wasn't to past and they sewage backmost together later that year. 

The character projected to his semipermanent emotion connected Valentine's Day successful 2019 erstwhile he popped nan mobility pinch a $5 cardinal flower-shaped ringing successful beforehand of Katy's full family. 

EMMA STONE

Emma Stone, 35, has successful past said that her first heartbreak - not disclosing immoderate names - saw her 'crawling connected nan floor' and 'throwing up'.

Speaking to Interview successful 2012, she said: 'Like, wrong nan hour. I retrieve being connected nan level . . . I person ne'er felt thing rather for illustration that.

'It was truthful visceral. It’s for illustration personification has killed you and you person to unrecorded done it and watch it hap . . . It was awful.'

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