Frankie Bridge has revealed her depression and anxiety makes her “live in fear” and feel “worthless”.
The former The Saturdays singer has been open about her mental health in the past, previously revealing she stayed at a psychiatric hospital after having a breakdown.
This week, the 36-year-old gave fans a glimpse into her daily routine while navigating depression.
“Sometimes this is what depression looks like. Sitting on the sofa all day in your PJs,” she wrote alongside a sombre-faced selfie on her Stories.
“Then, being so fundamentally fed up of your own s**t, you finally find the strength to make it to the gym. Quick shower and back to the sofa and PJs. Better than nothing.”
The Loose Women star later shared that she went to the gym in a bid to “quiet the noise in my head”.
“Spent a lot of the time psyching myself up and trying to quiet the noise in my head. Today it’s telling me I’m a worthless waste of space,” she wrote alongside a photo of her on a yoga mat.
A day later, Bridge - who is married to Wayne Bridge - admitted she was feeling “stressed” after stepping over three drains in a row - a superstition that is thought to bring bad luck.
“Er, I just got stuck in a situation where I had to walk over three drains in a row,” she told fans.
“I feel stressed out by it. I now have to find those drains with the holes in to let the bad luck go down. Please tell me I'm not the only person who feels this way.”
Bridge added a poll for fans with the options, “Just you babes,” and “No, I live in fear too qween”.
She then shared a clip of herself walking next to a field with her two dogs, captioning it: “For the head.”
In 2020, Bridge revealed she was hospitalised for a month after suffering a breakdown at the peak of her musical career.
She went straight to hospital after filming the video for The Saturdays’ single My Heart Takes Over in Iceland in 2011.
“For as long as I can remember I had suffered from anxiety, nervousness, the big black cloud, stress, low moods, sadness,” she penned in her book, Open: Why Asking For Help Can Save Your Life.
“I lived with it in silence and tried to conquer it alone… In my late teens and early 20s I’d had medical help of various kinds (in the six months before I was hospitalised, I’d seen two therapists and tried three different antidepressants - Prozac, venlafaxine and sertaline - but nothing had worked for long.”
She had been suffering with “uncontrollable panic attacks and paralysing negative thoughts about anything and everything” and “couldn’t go anything without help and was unable to function in everyday life.”
She added: “Fundamentally, I couldn’t see the point of living any more.”
On the advice of her psychiatrist, she was admitted to hospital where she was prescribed new medication.
Frankie praised her footballer husband for supporting her during this difficult time.
“He was my constant, the person who knew me inside out and seen me at my worst and most vulnerable,” she said. “He made me feel safe and loved. I couldn’t have done it with anyone else.”
“No matter how low I feel, I know I won’t ever be as low as I was when I went into hospital because I managed to speak out and ask for help,” she wrote.
Meanwhile, earlier this month reports began swirling of friction at ITV between Bridge, her former The Saturdays bandmate Rochelle Humes, and singer Myleene Klass, who work as daytime presenters.
The trio were once close, with Klass and Bridge attending Humes’ hen party in 2012, but relations have reportedly soured in recent years.
Bridge and Humes are both former clients of security manager Graham Quinn, Klass’s ex-husband. Humes is said to have offered Quinn a place to stay after his 2012 split from Klass, which reportedly left the former Hear’Say star feeling her friend had taken his side.
Tensions were recently heightened after Klass claimed she once caught Quinn and an unnamed celebrity “unzipping” each other at her birthday party, prior to them marrying.
In 2013, a year after the split, Klass is said to have confronted Bridge at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards, believing she had been blanked. Sources claimed Klass interpreted Bridge’s ongoing friendship with Quinn as further loyalty towards him.
Humes and her husband Marvin were also photographed holidaying in Ibiza with Quinn earlier this month — a move insiders believe may have ruffled feathers further.
Earlier this month, Bridge posted about no longer being a “people pleaser” as well as a cryptic TikTok about a mysterious person in her life now being “dead to her”.
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