Ruth Langsford Admits She Was 'Broken' After Eamonn Holmes Split In Candid Interview
Ruth Langsford has reflected on her split from ex-husband Eamonn Holmes in a candid new interview.
The two TV personalities had been together for 27 years, and married for 14, when a spokesperson announced in 2024 that the “marriage is over” and the pair were “in the process of divorcing”.
In the years since, Ruth has remained mostly tight-lipped about the break-up, but has spoken about it more candidly to the Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine.
Ruth began by saying that she and Eamonn had a “very happy marriage”, continuing: “Of course you question yourself, ‘did I miss something, was I not aware, was I too busy?’. But there’s no point playing the blame game.”
The Loose Women anchor admitted: “I just didn’t think I’d find myself here, and I wasn’t strong at the start. I was broken. Broken heart. Broken dreams.
“We all have an image of how we think our life and future is going to be. This wasn’t mine. I was devastated. We had gone from being a couple, traversing the usual ups and downs of a marriage, to an abrupt end. It was a huge shock.”
In the end, Ruth said she had to “give myself a good talking to” in order to stop herself “catastrophising”.
She recalled: “I was literally asking, ‘What’s going to become of me?’, like some sad, lonely woman in a Jane Austen novel.
“But then age and experience told me, ‘Ruth, you’re not going to die from this. I mean you are going to die, one day, but you’re not going to die from divorce’.”
Ruth initially took two months off her role on Loose Women in the wake of her divorce announcement, making only fleeting references to the split on the panel show in the period that followed.
Eamonn – who has since been linked with relationship counselor Katie Alexander – told viewers during his GB News show the day after the announcement was made: “I would like to thank you for your support for Ruth and I over the last few days as to the news of our separation.
“Your support for both of us is very much appreciated.”
Ruth and Eamonn share one son, Jack, who was born in 2002. Eamonn also has three grown-up children from his previous marriage to his first wife.