{"id":124379,"date":"2025-09-09T04:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124379\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T04:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:45:10","slug":"zoe-ball-opens-up-on-emotional-breakdown-after-mothers-death-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124379\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Ball opens up on emotional breakdown after mother\u2019s death | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**_If you are experiencing feelings of distress and isolation, or are struggling to cope, The Samaritans offer support; you can speak to someone for free over the phone, in confidence, on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/culture\/mailto:jo@samaritans.org\">jo@samaritans.org<\/a>, or visit the Samaritans website to find details of your nearest branch._**<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/zoe-ball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zoe Ball<\/a> fought back tears as she opened up on the emotional breakdown she went through following her mother\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC Radio 2 star spoke about the impact losing her mother Julia Peckham had on her, following her death from pancreatic cancer in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to her Dig It podcast co-host Jo Whiley, the radio DJ said: \u201cI had to stop working, I was on the floor in the kitchen, I couldn&#8217;t move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a proper emotional break down, I haven&#8217;t talked about it very much but it was brutal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"**_If you are experiencing feelings of distress and isolation, or are struggling to cope, The Samaritans offer support;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-124379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}