Holly Willoughby has had a rough go of it for the last while.
In an interview with The Times, the former This Morning presenter opened up about how difficult the last year has been on her.
"It’s been a tough one. There’s no way of sugar-coating it," an emotional Holly told the newspaper.
“Nothing can prepare you for something like that. When something like that happens, you have a decision to make.”
🗣️ ‘It’s been tough. There’s no way of sugar-coating it’
Over the past 18 months Holly Willoughby’s world has been turned upside down. In an exclusive interview with @PollyVernon, she opens up for the first time. Read it below
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) January 26, 2025
“You either decide, right, I can take this on board, and it can absolutely affect all aspects of my life. Or I can make a choice to go, let’s focus on everything that’s positive and good, all those important things.”
The presenter had just come back to hosting This Morning following her co-host Philip Schofield's grooming scandal, when she learned she’d been subject to a kidnap and murder plot.
Police arrested the man responsible after they were tipped off by the FBI, and uncovered the former security guard's plot to harm Holly Willoughby.
The man is currently serving a 15 year sentence in prison.
Holly Willoughby spoke about pulling through for the sake of her family:
“You have to go: I choose to positively move forward and rely on all those people — the police, the court, the judge, the jury — all those people to do their role. And that’s what I had to do.”
“I mean, every single person I speak to, and it seems more and more currently are going through something, you know? I think that — although I wouldn’t wish what happened to me on anybody at all — sometimes things go wrong, but you have to keep going for it because that’s all you can do.”
Holly Willoughby returned to our screens to host Dancing On Ice as usual with Stephen Mulhern.
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