"I’ve got lots of dogs, we’ve got horses, and I am probably outside, let’s say, of a 12-hour conventional day when I’m home, we and the family are outside probably ten hours of that — even in the winter with torches out.”.
Asked what the first warning signs of him not being well were, Ben, who first found fame on 2000 BBC One reality show Castaway, said it was when he was about to head to Antarctica for a month recreating the journeys of explorers Captain Scott and Ernest Shackleton.
But Ben Fogle has revealed how the stillbirth of his son Willem in 2014 turned him into a control freak — and eventually led to the mental health breakdown he suffered last year.
Ben, whose symptoms included crippling paranoia and anxiety, was then diagnosed with ADHD, and said that one of his first remedies was to delete social media apps from all his devices.
“And one of the big things that happened to me was that I became obsessed about control, because I’d lost control there.
