Fearne Cotton makes heartbreaking admission after Jesse Wood split

has revealed her anxiety has lessened after taking herself out of “situations that don’t work for me”.

The admission comes as Fearne revealed she had split from husband after 10 years of marriage.

She said: “My anxiety lasted a long time but I do feel like I’m breaking the back of it now, probably for certain reasons; my kids are that bit older, I feel like I’m slightly coming back to myself in ways, I’ve taken myself out of some situations that I know don’t work for me.

“I’m lucky that I can do therapy, I’m very grateful that I do that every week.

“With anxiety it’s such a tricky one to find the right tool because a lot of the time you’re not even worrying about a real thing.”

The presenter uploaded a divorce announcement on – just days after she disclosed a health scare, revealing she had discovered two tumours on her jawline.

Fearne shares son Rex, 11, and daughter Honey, eight, with Jesse, 48, and she is also stepmother to his children Arthur, 21, and Lola, 18, from his first marriage.

In the statement revealing the split Fearne told fans that their priority was their children.

She posted on : ‘It is with a heavy heart that I let you all know that Jesse and I are ending our marriage. Our priority has been and always will be our children.

‘We please ask that you respect the privacy of our family at this time.’

Fearne had previously admitted that their marriage had been ‘suffering’ as far back as 2019.

Now she admits she is learning to be kinder to herself and not people please in a bid to improve her mental health.

She continued: “I do think the bedrock of all healing and trying to feel better is being nice to yourself. And that sounds really rubbish and a bit like, what?

‘But I honestly believe that if you are trying therapy or all these different tools, or you’re doing breathwork, yoga, whatever you’ve found that you liked but you’re still calling yourself a piece of s*** in your head, saying, You’re useless, everyone hates you, it’s going to get really hard.

“You’re going to find it impossible to make waves and to see progress. So that is something I have to work on every day, cause it will always be one person on will say something shitty to me or whatever, and I have to tell myself, Don’t believe it, don’t beat yourself up because of this now.

“Go back to being nice to yourself, and pointing out the things you know about yourself that you know to be true – that you’ve got good intent and you always try your best, and that you’re going to mess up like every other human, but that you’re a good egg underneath it.

“I think most of us know we’re good eggs, right? And that we’re likable people.

“So although I can’t give you specific tools for anxiety, I think just changing that horrible narrative in all of our heads – we’ve all got it, to something kinder, is a very good starting place.”

The TV presenter and radio star was speaking at the Cheltenham Literary Festival as she promoted her new book Scripted in September.

And she says she wishes she had learned these life lessons in her thirties rather than later in her life.

She continued: “I wish that at 32 I’d learned all these lessons, than in my 40s.

“I’ve only learnt this stuff like, yesterday.

“It’s so new to me to have a level of self-respect and compassion for myself to say no, or to do what I want to do when I believe it’s the right thing to do.”

And as she approaches 50, Fearne admits she wants to be better at setting boundaries in her relationships.

She continued: “I hope I get better at boundaries, better at saying no when I don’t want to do something.

“I hope I spend more time doing things that I love because I love them, and it’s not about outside validation.

“More painting, more writing. Being with my family. All really simple things.

“I don’t want anything out of the ordinary. I want to be at home watching Bake Off, and just doing lots of nice arty things. And more cats, I forgot to say that, more cats.”