Blue’s Lee Ryan has claimed he’s ‘been through a lot’ as he discussed his mental health on Friday’s Good Morning Britain.
It comes after the singer, 40, dodged jail after his racially aggravated assault on a black British Airways flight attendant whom he told: ‘I want your chocolate children’.
During the interview, host Adil Ray, who was sat on the couch alongside Kate Garraway, asked: ‘You’ve been through a lot. You’ve gone a bit wild, I guess the lads have been there for you…
Lee jumped in, saying: ‘I mean, it’s not just me, I mean I think Robbie Williams, it’s part of the industry.
‘I watched the Robbie Williams documentary and I had to turn it off because it was so relatable to me. It was like watching myself.’
Blue’s Lee Ryan admitted he’s ‘been through a lot’ as he discussed his mental health on Friday’s Good Morning Britain
It comes after the singer, 40, dodged jail after his racially aggravated assault on a black British Airways flight attendant whom he told: ‘I want your chocolate children’
Lee added: ‘I’ve been through a lot, but these guys have always been there for me.’
He appeared on the ITV daytime show alongside Blue bandmate’s Duncan James, Antony Costa and Simon Webbe.
The noughties boyband have reunited for a Greatest Hits Tour in 2024, to celebrate two decades together.
The Blue boys will be touring across the UK in April and May 2024.
The band formed in 2000 and went on to release three studio albums titled All Rise, One Love and Guilty.
After announcing a hiatus in 2004, Duncan, Antony, Lee and Simon released their first compilation album, Best Of Blue.
The group first reunited in January 2011 and represented the UK in that year’s Eurovision Song Contest, coming in 11th place after a performance of I Can in Dusseldorf.
They went on to release two more studio albums, their fourth Roulette in 2013 and their fifth Colours in 2015.
In 2013, they joined groups including Liberty X, Atomic Kitten and 5ive to give a one-off gig as part of The Big Reunion.
When their tour was set to begin, it was pushed back after band member Lee was arrested after behaving in an ‘intimidating’ and ‘crazy’ manner during a flight from Glasgow to London City Airport.
He was handed a 12-month suspended prison sentence.
Passing sentence at Isleworth Crown Court, His Honour Judge Nicholas Wood told Ryan that he was fortunate to avoid an immediate custodial sentence – adding that the term was being suspended because of the remorse he had shown and because of the singer’s psychological condition.
The judge told Ryan: ‘You brought shame on yourself for this. I think you are aware of that.’
During the interview, host Adil Ray, who was sat on the couch alongside Kate Garraway, asked: ‘You’ve been through a lot. You’ve gone a bit wild, I guess the lads have been there for you…’
Lee added: ‘I’ve been through a lot, but these guys have always been there for me.’
He appeared on the ITV daytime show alongside Blue bandmate’s Duncan James, Antony Costa and Simon Webbe
The band formed in 2000 and went on to release three studio albums titled All Rise, One Love and Guilty (pictured in 2011)
He added: ‘The language you used may be acceptable in the entertainment industry, but it has no place on an aircraft being directed by cabin crew.’
But explaining his reasons for not handing Ryan a custodial sentence, the judge said he was swayed by a number of psychological reports which detailed the singer’s mental condition.
These showed that he has been diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Dyslexia; ADHD and also struggles with alcohol abuse.
A psychologist also claimed that Ryan was prone to risky behaviour and also had a lack of insight about how to deal with ‘personal dynamics.’
Judge Wood said: ‘If he (Ryan) didn’t have these (disorders) he would have been better able to interpret the situation that he should not have boarded a plan drunkenly.
‘Suffering from these impairments and disorders has reduced your culpability.’
The judge said that he had also hand Ryan a suspended sentence because he believed that the incident had ‘brought him to his senses.’
