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Fearne Cotton admits she used to 'hide in the bathroom' when she presented Radio 1 due to 'crippling anxiety' as she opens up on her 'excruciating time' on the BBC show
The TV personality, 42, fronted the radio station for a year in 2008 before she moved to present her own weekday show for six years until 2015.
But it wasn't as plain sailing for Fearne, since the broadcaster used to 'sneak off to the loo in between songs' to overcome panic attacks. 'I'm so glad that the ties have changed but back then I massively struggled in that situation of feeling so incapable of doing my job and talking publicly to millions of people everyday whilst slowly corroding inside. 'And I wasn't sleeping for days so I told Radio 2 'look, I'm just not mentally capable of doing this live stuff anymore' and stood down from a really great job.'
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