'DARK TIME'
Alex Jones reveals she dumped lying ex-boyfriend live on telly after he stole her Angelina Jolie interview
ALEX Jones has revealed that she dumped a lying ex-boyfriend live on TV after he stole her Angelina Jolie interview.
The 44-year-old star admitted that the experience in her mid-twenties led to a "dark period" in her life - but it "taught her to be tough".
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The pregnant TV favourite opened up about the betrayal in a new podcast, where she reflected on her early career.
She shared: "[My boyfriend at the time] moved to London and started working in London. So did I - I was recruited, believe it or not, on a show called Rise, which was a breakfast show on Channel 4 and I became the entertainment correspondent.
"I did all these junkets with film stars. So every Thursday I would come to London and then I would do Thursday and Friday with them and stay for the weekend. I must have been about 25 by this point…
"One day I was in Topshop on Oxford Street and the production company who made the show called the flat where we lived and said: 'We need to speak to Alex. Angelina Jolie is available for an interview and we need her to come and do it now.'
"And he said: 'Oh, Alex is ill and she actually in Wales, but I could come'. So off he went, I'm still in Topshop, unbeknown to me, buying cheap jeans and shoes."
Alex added on : "I got back to the flat and was like: 'Where is he?' Hours went past, nobody answering their phones, and in the end thought: 'Right, I'm going to drive back to Cardiff, because I don't know where you are, you've probably gone to the pub.'
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"And then the production company called, and they were like: 'We've got bit of a situation. Tomorrow morning your boyfriend is going to the premiere with Angelina Jolie and it it would be really funny if you came on the line, live on the show, and surprise him and said that you know exactly what he's been up to.'"
But saddened Alex went one further, explaining: "So again, I said yes, so on live telly I'm like: 'You lied to me, where have you been?' So yeah, not surprisingly, we split up live on telly!"
Despite the funny tale, Alex wasn't laughing at the time - admitting that she "wasn't herself" after her boyfriend's actions.
She shared: "It was a really dark time for about six months and even though I was still very happily working in Wales, I just wasn't myself, my mum was really worried, my fiends were really worried and at that point I thought, nobody is going to me like that again.
"I've had really nice boyfriends and a really nice husband, but I'm grateful because I needed that experience and I thought when I got myself together: 'I'm going to have a successful career, I'm going to work really hard', and I think it was a real turning point for me.
It was a really dark time for about six months, I just wasn't myself.
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"I stopped messing about and I focused, and from that point forward, was a real turning point forward when real good stuff started happening."
She giggled: "It was mad, and I can honestly can laugh about it now and I mean there's a lot to laugh about, but at the same time, I'm super grateful to him because that experience taught me so much. It taught me about how fickle our industry is, how tough you needed to be.
"Because I was just a little Welshy, who was like: 'Nobody would do a bad thing on purpose', then was like: 'Oh… They actually do…' But it taught me a lot about being in love with the wrong person and about how it can really damage you and damage your confidence."
Alex went on to enjoy a glittering career and is best known as the face of The One Show.
She is currently pregnant with her third baby with husband Charlie Thomson, a little girl who is due in the coming weeks.
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