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Richard Osman has opened up about his four decade long battle with a food addiction as he admitted it was caused by childhood heartache.
The TV presenter confessed he has struggled with overeating ever since he was about nine years old when his father left the family home.
He admitted the addiction has been 'absolutely ever-present' in his life as he explained: 'By and large, addiction is running away from your pain.'
Speaking candidly on Elizabeth Day's podcast How To Fail, the former Pointless host, 53, discussed his addiction candidly, as he began: 'It's so ridiculous, this food stuff.
'Alcoholics will tell you the same, like it's absurd that there's a bottle of vodka in front of you or there's a packet of crisps in front of you and it's more powerful than you.
Richard Osman has revealed his food addiction is still 'absolutely ever-present' in his life after a four decade long battle with the disease which stemmed from childhood heartbreak aged nine
Speaking candidly on Elizabeth Day's podcast How To Fail, the former Pointless host, 53, discussed his addiction candidly, as he explained: 'By and large, addiction is running away from your pain'
'It makes no sense. People are very judgmental in this world. I think, "How can you judge anyone in this world and how they behave, or how they act, or what their instant reaction to something is when you are less powerful many times in your life than, like, a big bar of chocolate in front of you?".
He continued: 'We've all got human minds and we're all crazy in slightly different ways.
'That's my version of it since I was probably nine years old. It's been absolutely ever-present in my life — weight, food, where I am in relation to it, where I am in relation to happiness because of it, hiding it.
'All of that stuff, it's been absolutely like the drum beat of my life.'
Richard has previously spoken about the life-changing moment when his father summoned the family to the living room and announced he was having an affair.
The presenter said during an appearance on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs: 'My father left when I was quite young, when I was about nine. And that was probably the end of that innocence, I suspect.'
For several months, Richard travelled by coach from the family home in Sussex to Rugby to see his father, but he soon cut ties.
The two were reconciled when Richard became a father in his twenties.
Richard (R) cut ties with his father after he left the family home when Richard was nine after telling the family he was having an affair (Richard pictured with is Aut Jan, brother Mat, grandfather Fred and grandmother Jessie L-R)
Speaking about his recovery, Richard revealed he began therapy later in life, and while he has relapses, he knows how to cope with it
