‘I felt like I’d had my womb ripped out!’ Ruth Langsford reveals she was in ‘physical pain’ due to sadness when her son Jack, 20, left for university
Ruth Langsford has candidly opened up about the extreme sadness she felt when her son Jack left to go to university.
The This Morning presenter, 62, told how she ‘felt like I’d had my womb ripped out’ and was in ‘physical pain’ when the 20-year-old – who she shares with husband Eamonn Holmes – fled the nest.
Ruth also admitted that in the days after he left she would sit on his bed ‘sniffing his pillow’ because she missed him so much.
Tough: Ruth Langsford has candidly opened up about the extreme sadness she felt when her son Jack left to go to university
She told Woman & Home: ‘I truly understand the pain of empty nest syndrome. The day we dropped Jack off at university, we said goodbye and, as we got around the corner, I burst into tears and Eamonn was crying too.
‘It sounds dramatic but for the next three days, I felt like I’d had my womb ripped out. It was physical pain. I was sitting on his bed, sniffing his pillow, and I kept his bedroom door shut because then I could imagine he was in there.
‘Now it’s great. Jack seems so happy and I don’t get as upset each time he comes home and then leaves again.’
Family: The This Morning presenter, 62, told how she ‘felt like I’d had my womb ripped out’ and was in ‘physical pain’ when the 20-year-old (left) – who she shares with husband Eamonn Holmes – fled the nest (his daughter Rebecca pictured right)
Upset: Ruth also admitted that in the days after the left she would sit on his bed ‘sniffing his pillow’ because she missed him so much
She also opened up about her marriage to Eamonn in the candid interview saying that don’t fall out about ‘big things’ but instead have small domestic disputes.
She said: ‘Eamonn and I don’t fall out over big things. On our anniversary, he peeled off the foil cover on a plastic milk bottle, left it wet-side down on the worktop, poured his tea and off he went.
‘Things like that can send me into a rage. I said, ‘How can your brain tell you that’s all right?’ Eamonn’s mum had five boys and did everything for them, whereas I went to boarding school and so I was a lot more practical, so we’re quite different.
Candid: She told Woman & Home: ‘I truly understand the pain of empty nest syndrome. The day we dropped Jack off at university, we said goodbye and, as we got around the corner, I burst into tears and Eamonn was crying too’
‘If Jack ever left anything on the side, I’d go, ‘Who do you think is picking that up? Me? Girls weren’t put on the earth to pick up after men!’ I hope that young women of his generation will not accept that. It shouldn’t be the case that women work then come home and do the housework.’
It comes after earlier this week Ruth made her homecoming to host This Morning – with Rylan Clark replacing her husband Eamonn as co-host.
The Loose Women star hosted the ITV morning show for the first time since October 2021 on Monday alongside former X-Factor contestant Rylan, 33.
Hard: She continued: ‘It sounds dramatic but for the next three days, I felt like I’d had my womb ripped out. It was physical pain’ (pictured with Jack as a baby in 2002)
It was the first time that she has led This Morning since Eamonn left ITV to host insurgent channel GB News’s breakfast show with Isobel Webster last November.
Ruth confirmed the news on Instagram on Sunday alongside a compilation of her highlights on the staple daytime programme with Rylan.
She captioned the hilarious video: ‘Excited to be reunited with my TV son [Rylan] on [This Morning] tomorrow….let the fun begin! Hope you can join us at 10.00 am on [ITV]’.
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Eamonn and Ruth used to co-host This Morning as stand-ins for headliners Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on Fridays.
While Eamonn jumped ship, Ruth stayed at ITV as a regular presenter on another ITV daytime staple, Loose Women.
But after Eamonn’s defection, they were replaced by new fan-favourite Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary.
Eamonn, 62, made enemies at ITV when he claimed former colleague Phillip Schofield ‘has a habit of ‘snubbing people’ during an interview with the Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine.
Belfast native Eamonn, who now presents the breakfast show at GB News with co-host Isabel Webster, accused ITV bosses of making it look as if he had walked away when in fact he had ‘no idea’ why he was being relieved of the slot.
‘No one explained anything to me,’ he told Weekend magazine.
‘I’m all for TV companies being able to choose who works for them, but it would be nice if you were told why you were going.
‘They’re sly. They didn’t want to announce that I’d been dropped because it would adversely affect audience figures, so they made it look as if I’d walked away from them rather than the other way round.’
The October issue of woman&home is on sale Thursday September 1
Here they are! It comes after earlier this week Ruth made her homecoming to host This Morning – with Rylan Clark replacing her husband Eamonn as co-host
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