The TV presenter revealed that she had chosen to write about the divorce now because she could 'see the bigger picture'
ANTHEA Turner has admitted that she "still loves" her cheating husband Grant Bovey.
The 56-year-old, who divorced Grant in 2015, was promoting her new book on Lorraine this morning when she made the comments.
She also admitted that she would have rather "walked on hot coals" than got divorced at the time.
In her book How to Survive Divorce, she speaks about how she struggled to cope with her husband's fling with Zoe De Mallet Morgan.
Speaking four years after the scandal to Lorraine Kelly, she revealed that she had chosen to write about the divorce now because she could "see the bigger picture".
When asked why she forgave Grant after he cheated on her, she revealed that she thought people should be given second chances - but not third.
Anthea admitted that a chapter of her book was called "avoid". She explained: "It is an awful journey you're going to put yourself on, and not just you - it's not just about two people. We'd been together for 16 years so there's friends, there's family, there's my stepdaughters... it's not just selfishly about two people.
"It's about a biosphere of people you're about to pull apart and anybody that's been through it knows the torture involved.
"And I'd been through it before, so I knew... and I would walk over hot coals to stop this happening again. I was frightened, I was scared and I didn't want to change my life."
The TV presenter was previously married to Peter Powell for eight years until they divorced in 1998.
Anthea, who has three stepdaughters with Grant, added that she "thought it was worth fighting for" and that, despite the fact that it didn't work, she "knows she tried".
When asked whether there was a bit of her that still loved her ex-husband, she said: "Love is one of those words interpreted in different ways but of course I still love him...
"I think we do use the word love a little bit more freely now, we love members of our family, friends. But are you in love? No, that's completely different."
Anthea also spoke about "drinking too much" following the divorce and that she had been in "a terrible place" at the time.
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