Emma Willis has candidly opened up about the extent of her husband Matt’s battle with drugs and drink – revealing how she once “drove around looking for him.”
The 39-year-old Busted icon was on TV screens on Wednesday (May 17) as part of his new BBC One documentary called Fighting Addiction.
Matt, who shot to fame as a member of boyband in the 2000s, first became sober in 2008 – the same year he married Emma. However, he relapsed several times, including after they welcomed their children, Isabelle, 13, 10-year-old Ace and Trixe, six.
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The one-off-special explores Matt’s struggles with drugs and alcohol and also features his wife and telly legend Emma.
And within minutes of the show airing, Heartbreaking scenes saw Emma recall the horror of her husband’s battle with drugs and alcohol.
“This is where I keep it,” she said, before opening a drawer to get out a notebook.
“The only thing I could think of to keep track was to keep a diary. I don’t think I’ve ever read it since I wrote it.”
As she flicked through the pages to read what she had written, she added: “It’s literally just notes of what I knew he had consumed.
“A bottle of champagne, a couple of wines, another bottle.”
She then quipped: “And more.”
“And more is a reference to, uhm, drugs,” she candidly admitted.
Reading further and further, Emma said: “I mean it’s every single day, without fail.”
Her voice then started to break as she revealed: “I remember I used to drive around looking for him and I used to go in all the local pubs to try and find him.”
“But he always went to the ones I didn’t know about.”
In another emotional scene, Matt opened up about his most recent relapse – which was in 2016 years ago during a Busted reunion tour.
He said: “Within a month I was doing six grams, bang, bang, bang, bang, on my own every f******g day and not coming home until 3am in the morning, pretending I was working on my album. I wasn’t really writing I was making s**t music in the studio doing coke.”
He added: “It was straight back to that shame cycle, the shame of relapse, the same of letting everyone down, the shame of using uncontrollably trying to stop and not being able to.”
Hearing her husband open up, Emma struggled to hold back the tears. She explained how she felt “flabbergasted” that he had relapsed.
She said: “I didn’t expect it. I think because he had been doing so well for such a long time. It was the last thing I thought.”
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