MTV presenter Laura Whitmore has admitted breaking up with The Coronas frontman Danny O'Reilly was "the lowest point" of her life and said it was hurtful reading about her split in the press.
The 30-year-old Bray native parted ways with the musician in 2012 while she was in Australia filming I’m A Celebrity and revealed it was one of the toughest things she ever had to go through and caused her mum to fly over to her.
“That was really, really hard.
“And I went through that massive break-up while I was doing live TV on the other side of the world.
“People could write about it, people could guess about it, and at the end of the day I was just a girl who was really hurt," she added.
“My mum flew over and I wasn’t well, only because of the stress of everything that was going on. I lost a lot of weight.
“My dad rang up and said, ‘You’re too skinny’.
“My dad saying I’m too skinny must mean I’m too skinny.
“Break-ups are hard but I couldn’t even go out and get drunk with my girlfriends," she said.
The couple dated on and off for two years and Whitmore said she is sick of people asking her why she broke up with the San Diego singer.
“We broke up for a reason. I broke up with him for a reason.It’s no one else’s business why we broke up," Whitmore said.
The former couple sparked romance rumours during the summer when they were spotted hanging out in London’s Primrose Hill, but Whitmore said they are just good friends and thinks it is weird when people try to make it out that she broke his heart.
“No, but it’s a bit weird, because I’m actually good friends with Danny, shockingly.
“I actually got a text from him today.
“So, for me, there’s no bad feeling with Danny.
“But I suppose, with Danny, especially because of who Danny is in Ireland, everyone is guessing – did we break up or didn’t we break up? It was hard.
“It was hard if you are going out with someone new and they put a picture of who you used to go out with.
“And that is a bit weird and awkward," she added.
Whitmore is currently dating Sunset Sons rocker Rory Williams after the pair reportedly hitting it off at the Calling festival in Clapham during the summer.
