Rylan Clark has opened up about losing his vision and experiencing stroke-like symptoms as he struggled with his mental health , following the breakdown of his marriage. The TV personality was married to his ex-partner Dan Neal from 2015 until 2021 when the pair divorced. He has since been linked with TV judge Rob Rinder , but has denied the friendship has turned romantic.
Clark, 35, has previously been open about his mental health issues, including the pressure to have a “marble body”. However, in a new interview, the former X Factor finalist, opened up about the frightening symptoms he went through as he experienced anxiety and depression. “I lost my speech.
I lost my vision for a little bit. It was like having a really bad stroke,” he told Jamie Laing on the Great Company podcast . “It was just so bizarre.
And yeah, it took me months to go back to work.” Clark, who said he would rarely take four hours off work, was forced to take four to five months off his professional commitments as he recovered. The Eurovision commentator said he regretted stopping work following the fallout from his divorce , but had made peace with the fact that he had handled it “in a different way” “I see it as like a self destruct button, something in my mind was going to f*** up your seemingly perfect life,” he continued.
“F*** it up, press this button and blow it all up. And I went, ‘Yeah’. And what then unfolded was months of me thinking, ‘Why would I do that? Why wou.