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Matt and Emma Willis got married just three days after the Busted star left rehab, he has revealed.
The TV presenters married in 2008 and share three children together, but Matt, 42, has admitted that their wedding day was blighted by his stint in rehab for drug and addiction, reflecting 'I shouldn't have been there really when I think about it.'
The musician has been open about his struggles to stay sober after being launched to fame at just 19 years old in Busted.
He entered rehab three times before he turned 25 - including just one month before he married Emma, 49, in 2008, after she issued him with an ultimatum about his substance abuse.
Speaking in an emotional episode of his podcast On The Mend, Matt explained how he spiralled into a booze and drugs binge when Emma was abroad filming a TV show weeks before their wedding.
'That two weeks she was away, I was I was worse than I've ever been,' he admitted, explaining how his '24/7' drinking left him fearing he was 'going to die.'
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Matt and Emma Willis got married just three days after the Busted star left rehab, he has revealed; pictured on their 2008 wedding day
Matt has admitted that for him their wedding day was blighted by his stint in rehab for drug and alcohol addiction, reflecting 'I shouldn't have been there really when I think about it'
Matt's drugs counsellor and his Busted tour manager got the star to a rehab centre in Bournemouth only for him to make a run for it as soon as he reached the door.
He ended up buying 'as much alcohol as I could' from a nearby shop, got 'absolutely wasted' and passed out in the street.
It was a stranger who found him and physically carried him through the door of the rehab centre.
That proved to be a turning point for Matt who admitted 'I put my head down and I was like, "right, I'm going to do everything I'm told. I'm going to listen to advice. I'm going to take everything on".
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'And I did that because I had a wedding coming up and I got out of that rehab on the Thursday and I got married on the Saturday morning.'
Matt explained how he turned up to marry Emma 'clean and sober,' with his drugs counsellor remaining by his side on the day.
'It was not the greatest of days for me. It was a weird thing getting married when you're scared,' he explained, adding that he managed to stay sober for the whole day despite paying for a free bar and sambuca wedding favours for his guests.
'Everyone knew I'd just been out of rehab. Everyone knew what a mess I was. Like it had been quite apparent to everybody,' he said of his loved ones.
The Busted star entered rehab three times before he turned 25 - including just one month before he married Emma in 2008, after she issued him with an ultimatum
Speaking in an emotional episode of his podcast On The Mend, Matt explained how he spiralled into a booze and drugs binge when Emma was abroad filming weeks before their wedding
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Matt explained how he turned up to marry Emma 'clean and sober,' with his drugs counsellor remaining by his side on the day
The couple renewed their vows in 2018 to mark their tenth anniversary'; pictured
'What I think people would be surprised about is I didn't make a straightforward amends with her. I didn't go and say, "I'm sorry", because I don't know what I would say.
