{"id":383604,"date":"2026-04-05T19:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:12:10","slug":"kathryn-thomas-opens-up-about-her-parents-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383604\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathryn Thomas opens up about her parents divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

TV presenter Kathryn Thomas has opened up about her parents\u2019 divorce \u2013 saying she didn\u2019t like going home after it.<\/p>\n

The Q102 host\u2019s parents. Anne and Gwynne Thomas, split when she was in her early 20s and the star told of the effects it had on her trying to adjust to a new normal.<\/p>\n

The Carlow <\/a>native admitted life \u2018doesn\u2019t ever feel the same again\u2019 one her parents split up.<\/p>\n

\"Pic:Pic: Kathryn Thomas\/Instagram<\/p>\n

She said: \u2018My mom and dad split up when I was 21, 22.<\/p>\n

\u2018One hundred percent. I don\u2019t think any child goes through, no matter what age, their parents splitting up for it not to have an impact. It was difficult for a while until they figured out their new norm. It doesn\u2019t ever feel the same again. I didn\u2019t like going back home,’ she said of the family home in Carlow.<\/p>\n

\u2018My dad being in an apartment was really weird, like really odd. And then we never did Christmas <\/a>again at home, so it was almost like I never really got to say goodbye to the house.<\/p>\n

\u2018Even clearing out the house [when her mother moved out], my sister went down. I couldn\u2019t do it, I couldn\u2019t go back to the house. From the moment they separated, I did Christmases in my house,\u2019 she told the Sunday Independent.<\/p>\n

\"KathrynKathryn Thomas pictured at the opening night of the Landmark Productions and Kate Horton ProductIons presentation of The Weir in association with 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin. Pic: Brian McEvoy<\/p>\n

But the RTE star said her parents split was \u2018amicable\u2019, adding: \u2018They\u2019re great friends now, I think we were more concerned really about my younger brother. He\u2019s 13 years younger than me.<\/p>\n

Kathryn<\/a> is set to host her new show, \u2018Young Forever: The Death of Ageing?\u2019, which airs on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player on April 13 and 20 at 9.35pm.<\/p>\n

But she said she received her own diagnosis while presenting the show \u2013 as doctors warned her cortisol levels are \u2018through the roof\u2019 and she was edging on burnout.<\/p>\n

Through her research for the show, the mother-of-two visited a longevity clinic in London which monitored her own sleep patterns for a week.<\/p>\n

\u2018They said my cortisol levels are through the roof. The practitioner was like, \u201cwe need to have a talk. You live in a heightened and constant state of stress\u201d. And I said, \u201csorry, I actually wake up in the morning, I\u2019ve got great energy\u201d. And she said, \u201cbut it\u2019s your cortisol levels\u201d. Even when I\u2019m asleep, I am constantly in a state of stress now,\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV presenter Kathryn Thomas has opened up about her parents\u2019 divorce \u2013 saying she didn\u2019t like going home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-383604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}