{"id":620527,"date":"2026-06-04T09:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620527\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:35:11","slug":"zoe-ball-opens-up-on-crippling-anxiety-that-left-her-unable-to-work-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620527\/","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":620528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[195601,183800,6494,309,1725,6496,102,11237,183803,1906,6623,108,2605,18306,195603,2207,6487,1671,217,15219,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-aston-villa-f-c","tag-club-soccer","tag-color-image","tag-england","tag-english-premier-league","tag-full-length","tag-health","tag-horizontal","tag-match-sport","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-morgan-gibbs-white","tag-morgan-rogers","tag-nottingham","tag-nottingham-forest-f-c","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-two-people","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620527","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=620527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}