{"id":460968,"date":"2026-06-04T17:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460968\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:41:13","slug":"zoe-ball-opens-up-on-crippling-anxiety-that-left-her-unable-to-work-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460968\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Ball opens up on \u2018crippling\u2019 anxiety that left her unable to work | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/zoe-ball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zoe Ball<\/a> has opened up on her \u201ccrippling anxiety\u201d that left her unable to get through her BBC Radio 2 shows.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to co-host and friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jo-whiley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jo Whiley<\/a> on a special edition of their Dig It podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/culture\/bbc-zoe-ball-family-grandmother-video-b2984293.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the presenter said <\/a>she believes that the panic attacks stemmed from a combination of perimenopause and grief.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Ball\u2019s partner Billy Yates died, and in 2024, her mother passed away from pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s so crippling and I just didn&#8217;t really know where to go with it,\u201d she said, revealing her doctor advised her to go on antidepressants. <\/p>\n<p>She said she has since \u201ccome out of it and learnt a lot\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoe Ball has opened up on her \u201ccrippling anxiety\u201d that left her unable to get through her BBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69,233810,233809],"class_list":["post-460968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-optamatchid2562254","tag-optauuid51i8bgm45ruiglvkbgnyb6ihg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}