Seann struggles with panic attacks

ICONINSIDER — Seann Walsh still struggles with panic attacks, three years after his “life changed forever” when he was seen kissing his ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ partner.
The 35-year-old star was spotted smooching his BBC One Latin and ballroom show pro partner Katya Jones during a night out when he was on the show in 2018, and he was dumped by his then-girlfriend Rebecca Humphries as a result.
And Seann has now admitted he recently had to “lie down in the street” after suffering a panic attack.
He said: “From that point on, my life changed forever. The panic attacks came back – big panic attacks and I ended up having what I later found out were Vertigo Seizures.
“I had one the other day, I just lied down – I had to lie down in the street, it’s quite humiliating. It’s London so nobody gives a s***. I have to relive what happened.
“Still, I can be OK then suddenly the memories of it all come back. It defeats me and beats me until the plates start spinning and I lose balance, fall and start screaming. I still get them.”
Seann admits the kissing incident “destroyed his dreams”.
Speaking on the ‘Take Flight’ podcast, he added: “A kiss and a statement destroyed my dreams and who I was. What I could have been, what my life could have been, what I could have made myself was gone.”
The comedian previously admitted he has had to “do a lot of growing up” over the past few years.
He explained: “You have to learn to like yourself. As a comedian you are going out there and you are looking for the love of strangers.
“I went on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and instead of the love of strangers I got the hate of strangers.
“And so you come out of that thinking, ‘I can’t be looking for the love of strangers any more.’ I have to just like myself.
“I still want to make millions of people laugh, but there has to be a separation. I have to accept what I did wrong, understand that, but also forgive myself.
“There is pre-‘Strictly’ me and there is post-‘Strictly’ me, they are closely related, but I had to change.”

Source: heraldmailmedia.com

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