Zoe Ball has spoken about her experience with ‘crippling’ anxiety and panic attacks, which left her struggling to work.
The TV and radio star, 55, took a leave of absence from her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show following her mother Julia’s death in April 2024 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Then in late 2024 it was announced that Zoe would step down from her morning slot in favour of a weekly Saturday show, which she also later quit in December 2025.
Zoe has now explained how anxiety brought on by the grief of losing her mum, combined with perimenopause left her ‘struggling to get
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