OLIVIA Attwood admitted married life is “really hard” in a searingly honest new podcast after rumours she and husband Bradley Dack might divorce.
Speaking on Olivia’s House, the TV star makes no bones about her relationship struggles, telling her fans that romantically, she and Brad had a summer to forget.
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Olivia Attwood has opened up about her marriage strugglesCredit: youtube/@thisisoliviashouse
She said she and husband Bradley had a ‘bad summer’Credit: youtube/@thisisoliviashouse
Things were so bad that insiders suggested the two-year marriage might not make it.
But the couple weathered the storm and even poked fun at the marital issues in a tongue-in-cheek social media video this week in which Bradley pretended to storm off at the mention of the dreaded ‘D’ word.
Olivia has now said: “Let’s talk about Bradley Dack, this poor, unwitting soul who married me. He’s still very sure he made the right decision, so you tell me who’s the problem here.
“It’s no secret. We had a really bad summer. I know this is not how people do things in my world. They do not talk and marriage in this way.”
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She continued: “I think that there was stuff going on on both sides…. At the end of day marriage is really f***ing hard.”
Olivia said that Bradley hadn’t been perfect, but she wanted to give him the chance to share that side of the story when he eventually joins her on the podcast.
She accepted that she could be “self-destructive”, and when the going gets tough she tends to push him away rather than lean into the issues together.
“The rumour mill was in full swing about us having a divorce and there were source quotes going out,” she said.
Olivia went against her team’s idea of putting out happy, loved-up pictures with Brad on social media, unhappy about putting out a false image.
“At that time, we really weren’t getting on very well,” she said. “I didn’t like the idea of forcing photos out onto my Instagram to pretend we’re really happy when we weren’t. He doesn’t like red carpets anyway…
“I’ve been in Ibiza. I’ve been pictured with my mate [Pete Wicks] from my radio show being too close… he’s already p***ed off at me.
“I’m not going to be like, ‘okay, now you have to come with me to a red carpet and stand next to me and pretend like we’re really happy’. I actually think I’m tempting fate by forcing that narrative. There’s even more pressure on us to live up to this narrative.”
She added that she was proud of herself for being transparent.
Though she acknowledged she was “too close” to Pete after they were seen lounging on a yacht with friends, she felt the reaction to her holiday was over the top, saying “I am going to live my life”.
Olivia said she’s always been a party girl and will continue to be one, however, she accepts it’s not always the best way to decompress.
She said: “It’s finding the balance. I need to have fun.”
Liv said Brad is still sure marrying her was the right thing to doCredit: Splash
Olivia was pictured looking cosy with pal Pete Wicks in IbizaCredit: Getty
