Emma Willis breaks down in tears after message from husband
Busted star Matt Willis last relapsed in 2016, at which point he would the family home each day to snort six grams of cocaine.
He eventually had to confess to his wife Emma he was back taking drugs, and revealed her friends had previously warned her to “get out while she still could”.
Matt, who turned 40 yesterday, and Emma, 47, discuss his battle in a new BBC One documentary and reveal how friends advised the host of The Voice to get out while she still could.
“I thought she would leave me many, many times, and I was involved in some of those times when people were saying that,” the star explains in the documentary.
“I’m so grateful she didn’t and that she could see something in our relationship that was worth holding on to. And it was — we have three kids and we’re very happy.
“It’s always hard to hear other people telling your wife to get out, but understandably at the time.
“I dread to imagine where I’d be without her. I’m thankful for her in so many ways.
“I’m really lucky to have her because a lot of people don’t have someone like her. She’s someone that’s going to stick around.”
Documentary Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction airs next week. In it, he takes a painful look at how his addictions have affected Emma.
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Matt started abusing substances at an early age but had cleaned up his act before they got married.
Despite what he calls “a few wobbles”, he managed to stay drug-free until 2016, when Busted announced their Pigs Can Fly reunion tour.
Backstage, someone casually offered Matt a line of cocaine and he gave in to temptation, which then led him to spiral out of control.
He says: “Within a month I was doing six grams, bang, bang, bang, on my own every f***ing day and not coming home until three in the morning, pretending I was working on an album, which I wasn’t really writing. I was making music in a studio doing coke.”
Matt had to ask for help again, leaving Emma devastated once more. She says: “You kind of kick yourself on reflection, thinking, ‘How the f didn’t I see that?’.
“All those key signs I hadn’t seen for so many years. I was absolutely flabbergasted, I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t expect it.
“Because he’d done so well for such a long time, that was the last thing I thought. I didn’t think it would get him again.”
But there was still no way she was throwing in the towel.
Emma says: “It’s very easy to look in on a situation you’re not directly involved in and go, ‘F*** that, get out now’.
“But when you’re in it and you have that history together and you love someone so dearly, you’re not going anywhere.”
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