Our Yorkshire Farm’s Amanda Owen ‘living in pressure cooker’ during Clive split

, the famed Yorkshire Shepherdess, has finally lifted the lid on her “pressure cooker” life during her secretive split from husband Clive, spilling all on how she coped with public scrutiny while managing her bustling brood of nine and a sprawling farm.

The couple, known from the popular series , called it quits in 2022 but remain committed to co-parenting and maintaining their sprawling farm operations.

In an intimate reveal, Amanda shared the emotional relief that came with going public about their separation. “You know when you have a pressure cooker, and you take the lid off and let the air out?” she told The Telegraph.

The TV star, who recently parted ways with her beau Robert Davies after five years together, and her ex-husband have been a familiar fixture on the hit farming series, where viewers have admired their family life and farming endeavours.

However, behind the scenes, the couple had been living separately for some time, a fact previously hidden from the public.

Amanda, 50, also shed light on their agreement to one another, revealing: “He said to me, ‘I’ll never say a bad word about you,’ and I said, ‘Well, I’ll do exactly the same.’”

The former couple still shares family meals and discusses daily activities concerning their children, such as sports days and driving lessons. “We both are very committed to the family and the farm. That sounds so cheesy, like some bloody publishers’ statement, but it’s a fact. We speak every day about what’s going on.

“Sometimes I’m there, sometimes he’s there, sometimes he’s working away, sometimes I’m working away. We just have to make it fit.”

She also detailed the strain put on her family since they entered the spotlight with photographers often camping up at their farm. “Oh, you can spot them. But you can’t exactly take them out with a rifle,” she joked.

Amanda also expressed the importance she puts on leading by example for her children.

“I’ve always reckoned that the best way to teach kids is to lead by example, right? Not, ‘Do as I say, not as I do.’ Therefore the best thing we can give them is just the sort of home life that they’ve always had.”

In a dramatic reveal from her book Celebrating the Seasons, Amanda shared a tense moment from 2019 when she preemptively ran a fell race route to avoid public failure.

Determined to avoid embarrassment, she ran alone, stating: “I couldn’t lose as I was only competing against myself.” During her solitary run, her husband Clive, became concerned about her whereabouts and ventured out to find her. Tragically, he slipped and fell into a river.

Amanda recounted his fury: “To say he was raging was an understatement” adding that he told her: “Why can’t yer just be bloody normal?” The incident was “never spoken of again.”