The reality star, who grew up near Wigan, reveals all in his upcoming memoir Dancing on Eggshells
Former Bake Off winner and Strictly runner-up John Whaite has lifted the lid of his recent ADHD diagnosis - which explains much about his hyperactivity, previous alcohol abuse, eating disorder and perceived depression.
“ADHD is an infliction, but it is also now my responsibility. I have to deal with my behaviour and my impulses, because I now know what I am prone to do and how I am prone to act. I’m a 34-year-old man and I have to make sure I’m a grown-up about it.” “It was about that message to say to children that if you feel that you’re different, that is ok. There is a world here that will accept you. We didn’t really have that as kids. Any gay storylines in soaps were often met with salacious headlines or the abrupt shutting off of television screens in some households. There was a lot of shame and stigma around it. And there’s still a stigma around the queer community. There’s still homophobia out there.
“I was so obsessed with what I ate, restricting calories, working out twice a day, making myself sick. I was afraid of food. I loved it, and I celebrated it and the beautiful creativity that’s involved with it, but I was afraid of what it could do to me.” The bulimia, he says, is “an extricable part of who I am now. My life will be a continuous battle of dealing with bulimia. Once you are a bulimic, once you are an alcoholic, you are always those things. I’m more than that, but what’s that’s given me is a real ability to navigate the s*** that life flings at me.
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