Amanda: I was rescued by therapy after my double childbirth trauma
AMANDA HOLDEN has revealed how therapy helped her cope with the trauma of almost dying in childbirth.
Speaking exclusively to today’s You magazine, the Britain’s Got Talent judge says she had grief counselling for a month after the difficult birth of her daughter Hollie in 2012.
It was the second pregnancy trauma for the actress, who suffered the stillbirth of a boy seven months into her term the previous year.
She says: ‘I wasn’t coping and had to do something about it, and I’m not a believer in taking antidepressants if you can find a way to avoid doing so.
‘But I’m an incredibly pragmatic person and I understood I had to get someone to help me. I went to see a woman and she talked to me about changing the way I thought, looking at my anxieties in a different way.
‘It worked and then I stopped the therapy as it had served its purpose.’