{"id":187693,"date":"2023-10-05T18:33:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T18:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=187693"},"modified":"2023-10-05T18:33:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T18:33:49","slug":"ruth-langsford-says-her-hardest-year-was-after-her-sisters-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/celebrities\/ruth-langsford-says-her-hardest-year-was-after-her-sisters-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Langsford says her &apos;hardest year&apos; was after her sister&apos;s suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ruth Langsford admits the &#8216;hardest year&#8217; of her life was after her sister Julia&#8217;s suicide and tells how &#8216;amazing&#8217; Eamonn Holmes helped her through it<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, please call the Samaritans for free on 116123 or visit: www.samaritans.org\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ruth Langsford has opened up about her sister Julia&#8217;s suicide and told how it was the &#8216;hardest year&#8217; of her life.<\/p>\n<p>The Loose Women presenter, 63, reflected on the devastating loss of her sister and admitted she could have &#8216;cried all day&#8217; as she spoke about her grief.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth&#8217;s sister Julia Johnson, who had battled depression for years, was found dead at the age of 62 by her husband Paul at their home in Lingfield, Surrey, in June 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Kaye Adams on her\u00a0How to be 60 podcast, Ruth told how her husband Eamonn Holmes was &#8216;amazing&#8217; and helped her get through the very difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Mirror, she said:\u00a0&#8216;The hardest year of my life was when my sister died. I can&#8217;t even tell you what year it is, because I&#8217;ve blocked it from my memory really.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/05\/18\/76215861-12599003-image-a-31_1696527321585.jpg\" height=\"863\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Devastating:\u00a0Ruth Langsford has opened up about her sister Julia&#8217;s suicide and told how it was the &#8216;hardest year&#8217; of her life<\/p>\n<p>Ruth said Eamonn and their son Jack, now 21, both supported her and she told how her job also helped her after Julia&#8217;s death as it gave her &#8216;structure&#8217; back in her life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Eamonn was amazing during that time and Jack and then work,&#8217; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I needed a focus, which was &#8211; get up and I would cry in the shower &#8211; have a big old bawl \u2013 and then I could almost cut it off and go: &#8220;right, come on, time for work, dry your hair, go to work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I needed that, because I could lie and cry all day about my sister. I needed that focus and structure back in my life.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ruth also stressed the importance of not &#8216;locking&#8217; the pain of losing a loved one &#8216;in a box&#8217; as she candidly spoke about her grief with her Loose Women co-star Kaye.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth has previously spoken about how she almost\u00a0almost quit her TV presenting career after being left &#8216;heartbroken&#8217; following Julia&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Best Magazine in 2020, Ruth admitted:\u00a0&#8216;It seemed wrong to be cheery on screen, when, inside, my heart was breaking.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But her husband Eamonn encouraged her to go back to work in memory of Julia, after she admitted she had &#8216;no motivation or desire&#8217; to be in the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>After a month of &#8216;crying, screaming and sobbing&#8217;, Ruth said Eamonn told her she had &#8216;so much to live for&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/05\/18\/24835946-12599003-Much_missed_The_This_Morning_presenter_60_opened_up_about_her_em-m-33_1696527330553.jpg\" height=\"773\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Loss:\u00a0Ruth&#8217;s sister Julia Johnson, who had battled depression for years, was found dead at the age of 62 by her husband Paul at their home in Lingfield, Surrey, in June 2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/05\/18\/76215845-12599003-image-m-35_1696527352441.jpg\" height=\"459\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Support: Ruth has told how her husband Eamonn Holmes (pictured in 2019) helped her get through the very difficult time, while her presenting jobs also gave her &#8216;focus&#8217; amid her grief<\/p>\n<p>Ruth explained: &#8216;Eamonn pointed out that he was, in effect, losing not one, but two of the most precious people in his life \u2013 Julia and me. He showed me how I had so much to live for in Julia&#8217;s memory \u2013 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He pleaded with me not to let it win, by ruining everything I had achieved \u2013 and still had to celebrate.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Sharing a photo alongside Julia in June 2019, Ruth told her Instagram followers at the time of her sister&#8217;s tragic death: &#8216;My lovely Sis Julia has sadly died after a very long illness. My heart is completely broken.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She was the kindest and most gentle soul and I will miss her forever. As I am sure you will appreciate I need to take time to grieve with my family. Thank you for your understanding.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><span>If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, please call the Samaritans for free on 116123 or visit: www.samaritans.org.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-12599003\/Ruth-Langsford-admits-hardest-year-life-sister-Julias-suicide-tells-amazing-Eamonn-Holmes-helped-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Langsford admits the &#8216;hardest year&#8217; of her life was after her sister Julia&#8217;s suicide and tells how &#8216;amazing&#8217; Eamonn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ruth Langsford says her &amp;apos;hardest year&amp;apos; 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