The 40-year-old admitted she turned to booze amid the “humiliating” break up in 2013, which left her struggling financially.
Speaking on the latest episode of White Wine Question Time, a brand new podcast from Yahoo, hosted by Kate Thornton, the star spoke candidly about the split alongside fellow guest Tamzin Outhwaite and Julie Graham as they shared three bottles of wine.
Myleene, who is now dating Simon Motson, said: “I was doing breakfast TV and I went to get out the car and I thought, "I can’t"… I was right in the middle of the divorce…
“And I opened the door, and I couldn’t get out the car. I couldn’t breathe. Finances were spiralling because I thought, "I’m going to lose everything"'.
"The humiliation, you've got people looking at you, blaming you without a clue as to what the f**k is going on.”
The divorce hit the mum-of-two really hard, and things got so bad she struggled to go five hours without a drink.
Discussing how hard it hit her, she continued: “Lauren (Laverne) came and visited me at 4 in the morning, that’s how low I was.
“I didn't want it (divorce) to define me, but it did change me irrevocably. I've never ever been in the position where I've had to ask people for help.
“I remember waking up and thinking it's OK to have a drink at 11am, because I hadn't had a drink in 5 hours.”
Myleene started dating her bodyguard Graham while she was still in Hear’Say.
The couple dated for around six years before having their first child, Ava, in 2007. Their next daughter, Hero Harper was born in 2011.
Later that year Myleene and Graham were married, but just six months later he walked out on her and they were divorced in 2013.
The star is thought to be worth around £11 million, but didn’t sign a pre-nup when they signed the knot.
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