Rylan Clark makes heartbreaking Dan Neal divorce admission four years after split

Rylan Clark has made a heartbreaking divorce admission four years after his split. The TV presenter broke up with his husband Dan Neal back in 2021 after six years of marriage.

The 36-year-old has been open about the reason for their split, with Rylan admitting that he was unfaithful to his ex-husband early on into their relationship – not expecting his husband would leave him when he confessed in 2021. Four years after the heartbreaking split, he has now spoken candidly about the difficult time that he experience afterwards.

Rylan opened up on the latest episode of his own podcast where he was chatting to Love Island star Tasha Ghouri. On the How to Be... podcast, he said: "When I went through my divorce, I had a full-on breakdown because it wasn't just us.

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"It felt like it wasn't just us, even though it was just me and my ex. I felt that everyone's going to think this of me. Everyone's going to think, 'Oh look, his life isn't perfect. Oh look, he's failed like that.' I just felt like a failure."

As he was talking about the difficult break up, he still acknowledged that it was still the "right thing to happen". This isn't the first time that Rylan has talked about his marriage on his podcast.

He was chatting to Stephen Fry as he explained: "We got married in 2015. That same year, yeah. So it would have been my 10 year anniversary this year."

Stephen then asked if Rylan felt any kind of responsibility to represent gay marriage as an LGBTQ+ celebrity. He asked: "But did you feel also that - when it broke up and you were divorced – did you feel that there was in some sense you were letting down the idea of gay marriage, because we have a duty to show that our marriages are as robust and strong as any heterosexual?"

Rylan said: "There was part of me that just felt like a complete and utter failure. I felt like I'd failed personally, but I felt like I'd found publicly on behalf of - the gays! You know, I'm not, I'm not 'head gay', it's not that."

TV star Rylan admitted he cheated on Dan during their relationship which was ultimately the cause of the downfall of their marriage. Dan decided to end the relationship after Rylan had come clean about being unfaithful earlier on in their romance.

Rylan found that he was having suicidal thoughts after the split and he dropped down to just nine stone in weight. He discussed the challenging times in his second autobiography, TEN: The Decade That Changed My Future.

In the book, he wrote reflection and said: "I got in a relationship quite young and just went with it. Now I know I'm my own person. I'm not going to settle for something that's not right. In a way it's been a bit of a gift.

"I'm happy to have sex with someone and that's that, that's not a problem. But do I want more? Of course I want more. Am I going to enjoy myself on the way? Abso-f***ing-lutely."

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