I’m A Celebrity’s Seann Walsh reveals the deep impact growing up with a heroin-addict dad has had on his life

The comedian has made great strides to turn his life around after being caught up in a Strictly kissing scandal in 2018
I’m A Celebrity’s Seann Walsh has opened up about his struggles and that cheating scandal
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Tina Campbell16 November 2022
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I’m A Celebrity’s Seann Walsh says growing up with a heroin-addict dad had a huge effect on him and believes it is why he has always struggled to have structure in his life.

The 36-year-old comedian says he has attempted to address his issues over the years, including through therapy sessions after he found himself caught up in the middle of a kissing scandal when taking part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2018.

Walsh’s career was left in tatters after he was pictured kissing professional dancer Katya Jones, 33, despite having a girlfriend at the time, Rebecca Humphries, and Jones was married to fellow pro-dancer Neil Jones, 40.

Since then, he has ditched alcohol, worked on turning his life around, and is now preparing to become a dad for the first time after announcing in October that his girlfriend of three years, Grace Adderley, is pregnant.

According to the Mirror, he said: “This idea of structure in my life, this was one of the things I had to grapple with, after the Strictly stuff, you kind of realise that life couldn’t continue the way it was. Something had to give.

Seann Walsh found himself caught up in a scandal after being pictured kissing his Strictly professional dance partner Katya Jones in 2018
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“The booze had to go and I had to try to rebuild my life and I went to therapy and therapy was about trying to find order and structure and all this stuff. That can be eye-rolling at times, if you’re talking about it and listening to it.

“But that thing of finding structure you realise, of course, that came from having a dad who was a heroin addict. If your dad’s a heroin addict, you’re not going to be someone who wakes up in the morning and does a to-do list. That organisation isn’t going to be there.”

Walsh was a surprise addition to this year’s series of I’m A Celebrity alongside former UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

He has said that he hopes his appearance on the show will help to “draw a line” under his past so that he can finally move forward.

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