Ant McPartlin reveals he has ADHD after horror car crash and says ‘his heart goes out to other sufferers’

ANT also told how he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder following tests after last year’s car crash.

The TV star reveals: “I’ve got ADHD. I don’t mind talking about that.

“I never knew that until afterwards. I was so thoroughly examined and diagnosed, I found stuff out about me I hadn’t addressed for years.”

Ant says his diagnosis immediately “made sense” because the condition can go hand-in-hand with alcohol problems.

He explains: “There are a lot of links to alcohol-dependency, which I studied a lot when I was away.”

Ant also investigated fellow sufferers Richard Bacon and Rory Bremner — and found their condition may have helped with their TV work.

He says: “There’s a lot of characteristics that held me in good stead working in live television. Richard said the same.

“In my job, having what they call ‘popcorn thinking’ is good because it means you can jump from one thing to another.

“Professionally it’s brilliant. Personally I’m all over the place.

“I need to be cared for and looked after. I need to be aware of things more and I am now.”

The fact he was only diagnosed at the age of 43 shows there is much more work to be done on mental health issues.

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He explains: “In our day-to-day lives we’re not very introspective – especially not British northern blokes.

“There will be so many others who will be struggling and my heart goes out to them.
“If they can get anything from what I went through then it’s, ‘It’s OK to not be OK’.”

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