Carol Vorderman, 59, has been on our televisions for almost 40 years, and has hosted the Pride of Britain Awards since it started, back in 1999. But the TV star has previously revealed that she has depression.
Carol is best known from her days presenting Countdown, which she started in 1982.
She spent 26 years as the face of the Channel 4 show, before being handed a role on ITV’s Loose Women in 2011.
Carol will be returning to our TV screens on Saturday night, as the annual Pride of Britain Awards is set for its 21st year.
But Carol has previously explained her symptoms of depression.
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“I was powering on doing this and that, and building houses and flying a plane and bringing up my kids by myself and all of those different things,” Carol told ITV’s Lorraine, back in 2017.
“Then this depression hit me. I don’t use the word ‘depression’ lightly. This was a blackness where I would wake up… [and] nothing else in my life was going wrong.
“I’m a very lucky woman, no money worries or nothing like that. I would wake up and I thought ‘I don’t see the point in carrying on. I just don’t see the point in life. I don’t see it’.
“There was no reason to feel that way, and the only reason I didn’t do anything, and I’ve not admitted it before, is because I had two children.”
Depression is a serious mental health condition, according to the NHS.
It’s more serious than simply feeling unhappy for a few days.
While it’s normal to feel slightly down, you may have depression if you’re feeling persistently sad for a number of weeks or months.
The signs of depression can vary between every single person, and may include feeling hopeless, or having low self-esteem.
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