Stacey Solomon has opened up about her 'out of control' fear of dying and suffering with 'intrusive thoughts' in an incredibly honest interview.
The Loose Women star sat down with Fearne Cotton for her Happy Place podcast which was released on Monday.
Stacey, 31, discussed how she uses tidying and organising - which is now a staple of her new career as an author and presenter - as a way of coping with her anxiety.
Speaking to fellow TV star Fearne, she said: "My 'out of control' manifests in fear. I have this really weird fear of death. So the minute I feel out of control I just think I'm going to die. I know that sounds ridiculous, it's so weird.
"When things are going wrong I just immediately, my brain goes to the most intrusive thoughts that it possibly could. I just think, 'Oh my gosh, this could happen to me tomorrow and then I could not wake up'."
Stacey added: "The only way for me to completely block out those thoughts when I'm feeling out of control is to focus my mind on a task and that can be tidying something, organising something or crafting something."
The mum-of-three is a hit among fans and has amassed a strong social media following thanks to her top home hacks and her family life.
Stacey, whose first book Tap to Tidy: Organising, Crafting & Creating Happiness in a Messy World was recently released said: "I think that exercise, cooking, crafting, all of these things are just different forms of meditation."
She also discussed being a teen mum as Stacey welcomed her first son, Zachary, now 12, when she was 17.
"I even now look back and feel really guilty about the way I was as a parent when he was a baby, because I just wasn't good," Stacey said.
"And I know that obviously you shouldn't say that to yourself but that is just the way I feel about the situation.
"I didn't want to be his mum, I didn't know how to be his mum and I found it all very, very difficult."
But now she is more proud of than her three sons, including eight-year-old Leighton, eight, and Rex, 21 months.
"I look at exactly what's going on now and I just think do you know what Stace, you've done an amazing job, you are an incredible mum," she told Fearne.
"The boys that I've raised, I am so proud of Fearne. There is nothing I am more proud of than my children.
"Every single one of them has had a different upbringing, every single one of them has been born into different circumstances with different lifestyles and they're all really good people.
"And I think that goes to show that no matter what regrets I have, no matter what happened in the past, ultimately... it's all going to be alright."
