Sadie Frost: depression left my marriage in ruins
Miss Frost stated she experienced “paradise syndrome” in which she “had it all” but felt compelled to “destroy whatever was good before someone took it from me”.
She writes of her decision to leave her husband, Gary Kemp of the band Spandau Ballet, to set up home with the actor.
“I was jeopardising an idyllic home life, the most secure relationship I’d ever had,” she writes. “I crushed my unwelcome ideas about Jude, but it wasn’t easy.’
She writes about her chaotic childhood and the family’s history of mental illness.
“My mom would accuse my dad of being on drugs, not that I knew what that meant,” she writes. “I later learned that Dad had taken LSD and suffered psychotic episodes for years afterwards, eventually ending up in a psychiatric clinic.”
She states she has “probably recovered from manic depression” which has “weaved such a dance of destruction through my adult life”.
She writes: “I’ve realised, as a woman and a mother, that depression is not something we like to admit to. The stigma remains: as a mom you are supposed to cope and not admit defeat. What saved me was being able to ask for help and to accept it. It was the ideal thing to do because as soon as I did, recovery was swift.”
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