VICKY Pattison broke down in tears as she revealed her secret mental health battle ahead of her debut on Strictly Come Dancing.
The former Geordie Shore star will take to the dancefloor in an effort to win the glitterball trophy.
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Other names to also start their training include fellow Love Island star Dani Dyer and Emmerdale actor Lewis Cope.
But Vicky, 37, revealed that she was left with much anxiety from the show.
The former I’m A Celebrity campmate then sought help from psychologists on ITV‘s This Morning, Nick and Eva Speakman.
She opened up on her Get A Grip podcast with fellow Strictly star Angela Scanlon, who competed on the show in 2023.
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“I went back to therapy, but I pretty much cried for three hours straight,” she admitted.
“Therapists are great, like, I’ve been super honest. I go and see the Speakmans.”
“It started off like, why I’m so stressed about Strictly. They always find, like, the easy way in.”
Vicky revealed that the trio did an exercise where they wrote everything down and went through the points one by one.
She explained: “And I wrote, like, all the reasons why I was doing Strictly.
“They write them down on a board for me and I sat, it was super illuminating.”
The former Ex On the Beach personality broke down in tears as she spoke about her glittering dreams of a long-term TV career.
“And I was like, I want to prove to people that I can do it, and that I’m more than just like a reality TV star,” she cried.
“And I want to be a TV presenter eventually and I think this is a great step.
“I want to make my family proud. They love it. I want to have, you know, a nice home, financial security.”
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She continued: “I think this could be a step to that.
“And I want to go on nice holidays. And I spoke about it all and wrote all down, and I was like, I just want to prove I can do it.”
Angela then interjected as she highlighted that actually Vicky was describing her ‘life right now’ with her current achievements and not in the future.
Vicky responded: “But it’s all about how you see yourself, isn’t it.
I want to prove to people that I can do it, and that I’m more than just like a reality TV star.
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“Subsequently, the worked all through the list, and [were] like ‘your family are proud, and you’ve got to have it all’.
What boiled it all down to mate, was just was like I am still just trying to f****** change the opinions of people who will never like me, who are convinced I’m nothing but that girl from Geordie Shore.
She added: “[Who think] I’m never going to be any better, and I’m wasting my life mate. I’m wasting me time trying to pander at these people.”
Strictly Come Dancing will return to BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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