Vorderman during a Bushtucker Trial on I'm a Celebrity.Get Me Out of Here!Īnd there she found it, in the unlikely place of the menopause. The problem-solver in her started researching depression which made her analyse the issue and look for patterns. This descent into despair seemed inexplicable, until Carol began to make sense of it. ‘On the outside people wouldn’t know - I’m well-rehearsed at laughing in company - but as soon as I was back on my own, I’d be on the floor again.’ I barely slept unless I took a sleeping pill, and then I’d wake in a fog that added to the other fog in my mind. ‘You’d feel as if the rest of the world was carrying on its everyday business and you were this weirdo, sitting on the sidelines. You’d think: “Is there something wrong with me?”
‘There would be short respites when you had to do something for a few hours, or you’d see some friends, but as soon as you stopped you’d be back in the pit of despair. Carol pictured a the age of 50 with her two children Cameron, then 20, and Katie, then 25, from her second marriage to management consultant Patrick King, which ended in 2000
