TV PRESENTER Danni Menzies has said that before getting her role on A Place in the Sun she used to have such bad panic attacks she was afraid to leave the house.
The Channel 4 show host has spoken about her mental health battles in the hopes that others going through the same issues might be able to find help.
Viewers of the property programme love her sunny demeanour, but would never guess at the struggles she has been through to get where she is.
In a recent episode of the podcast Blethered, the 34-year-old opened up about her experiences with anxiety to host Sean McDonald.
She shared that before her career took off, she had to really push herself to attend castings for TV shows.
Danni admitted: “At that point in time I was suffering really badly with anxiety, panic attacks, my headspace was terrible.
“I was going to castings but I was taking diazepam in the car. I was not in a good way.
“My mum was saying, ‘Pretend you’re someone else.’ I’d go in, get it done, come out and pass out in the car.”
The Perthshire local added: “It was a really hard thing to push through. I was scared to go outside and I was having to fight myself to do things.
“When I decided I wanted to move to London I was still really struggling with anxiety, panic attacks and depression.”
Thankfully these days the TV personality is doing a lot better after a positive experience with NLP therapy.
She told Sean that her therapist guided her through past traumatic experiences in a way that removed negative emotions from the memories.
This lifted a weight from her shoulders, and she continues to advocate for people in the public eye discussing topics like depression and anxiety.
She said: “The power of social media is amazing, there’s a lot of celebrities speaking about it so it’s a bit more talked about now and that’s actually a positive thing.”
