DENISE Van Outen’s former boyfriend has spoken for the first time about their split — and admitted swapping up to 20 sex texts behind her back. Eddie Boxshall, 49, who appeared on C4’s Celebrity Go…
“I’m sitting here to say I hold my hands up to what I’ve done wrong.“I’ve tried to apologise to Denise. I’ve sent her untold messages on text, on email, saying that I love her and that I’m sorry for what I’ve done — that I’m embarrassed and I’m ashamed.“I knew my actions had broken us. But I still hoped that our seven-year relationship was strong enough to withstand a mistake I made at a very dark time in my life.
I can see how Denise built up a picture against me, but all of those things were innocent, and I told her so when she showed me all the photos.And he dismissed as “absurd” the suggestion that he would have another woman’s photo displayed like that while in a relationship. "Then she asked me how long I had known her and I lied on the spot. I shouldn’t have, but I felt embarrassed that I’d been caught up in something like that with a stranger I’d met online.
The court case against him was set for October 2018, and he said that as it approached, he began spiralling out of control — drinking heavily and suffering crippling panic attacks as his legal costs soared to tens of thousands of pounds. “I was drinking more. I was drinking every day, at lunchtime, after work and when I got home. I wasn’t falling over but it was a habitual crutch. My mental health was falling apart and I was using alcohol as a Band-Aid.
"So I drew a line under it, and the next time I thought of it was when Denise found the screenshot I had taken amongst my iPad photos.
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