Loose Women's Nadia Sawalha has opened up about how her 23-year marriage, revealing that it nearly ended over her husband's intense jealousy. The 60-year-old married husband Mark Adderley in 2002 and has previously opened up about hurdles in their relationship.
Nadia spoke in the past about her husband achieving sobriety after struggling with alcohol for many years and being diagnosed with Bipolar II disorder and depression back in 2021. Now, the TV personality has revealed that after quitting alcohol, Mark began to suffer with jealousy.
Nadia told the ITV show: "My kids hate it what doesn't kill us makes us stronger but I think that it probably has with Mark and I. I think about when things have been really tough in our marriage and we've thought, 'God we're not going to get through this' but then we do.
"For him, it definitely would have been points through my menopause when I was a screaming banshee nutter. I was very difficult, I was awful."
As for his behaviour that she struggled him, Nadia said: "He's been brilliant with his sobriety and then after the sobriety, after he got sober, he cross-addicted a lot to jealousy and the jealousy was just awful. It was so bad.
"When we went to couples' counselling, I said that unless you do some work on this, we're not going to survive it. It's something that's made me love him even more that he's done work on that."
Earlier this year, Nadia spoke emotionally about the cuts to daytime shows being made at ITV. In a YouTube video, she said: "Do you know what, at the moment, all of us on screen are in work and are proud of what we do.
"But behind the scenes there are people that are really suffering, and what you don't realise is when you attack the show you attack them, because you never see all the army of people behind the scenes and how hard they work."
She added: "So to all my friends and colleagues behind the scenes who have just got a huge shock out of the blue, I'm so sorry. Mark knows how upset I've been at home about it.
"I just can't bear it. So just be f*****g kind to people."
She continued by saying that the Loose Women stars are self-employed. "Every contract is a new contract. I could be let go tomorrow, in five years, you don't know because we're not employees," she said.
"So I can't tell you anything accept I am on for my next contract. What has been brutal over the past week and I am getting tearful about it, is that hundreds of people are going to be made redundant out of the blue."
Loose Women airs weekdays from 12:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
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