Vogue Williams’s divorce comments explained: the listener question behind them

Vogue Williams recalled feeling embarrassed after her divorce from Brian McFadden while answering a listener on My Therapist Ghosted Me, according to reports published on September 30. Her comments explain how her expectations about relationships and motherhood changed after the marriage ended; they are a reflection on that period, rather than a new relationship announcement.

The Mirror’s report, carried by AOL, quotes her contrasting those earlier doubts with her life now: ‘Then I met somebody and now I’m sitting on this podcast breastfeeding my fourth child. So this could be you at 40.’

What Vogue Williams said about her divorce

Extra.ie and the Mirror reported Williams’s account of the embarrassment she felt after the divorce. ‘I was so embarrassed when the whole thing had happened,’ she said, according to both reports. The Mirror also quotes her saying: ‘I just was like, “This is the worst.”’

She described having adjusted her expectations about both marriage and children. In the Mirror’s account, she said: ‘I had made myself come to terms with the fact that I was never going to have kids and that I was never going to be married again.’

Why the listener’s question matters

The Mirror places those remarks within an answer to a listener’s question. Williams used her experience to suggest that someone’s circumstances could change even when they had accepted a different future. That context explains why her answer moved from the end of a marriage to being a mother of four.

The report does not reproduce the listener’s full question or establish their age. Williams’s closing phrase, ‘So this could be you at 40,’ is part of her answer; it does not establish how old the person asking was.

Listener contributions are part of the programme’s format. The official My Therapist Ghosted Me website describes candid, comedic conversations between Williams and comedian Joanne McNally, with listeners encouraged to send in questions and personal experiences. It dates the podcast’s launch to April 2021.

When Vogue Williams and Brian McFadden separated

The September reports describe Williams’s marriage to the former Westlife singer as lasting from 2012 to 2017. Their public separation announcement came earlier: the Evening Standard reported it on July 7, 2015, after nearly three years of marriage.

According to that contemporary account, the couple met in 2011, became engaged in January 2012 and married in Florence that September. Williams announced their separation on Twitter, and McFadden shared the same statement.

‘It is with sadness that Brian and I have made the tough decision to go our separate ways,’ the announcement read. It continued: ‘We will always care greatly about each other, remain friends and wish each other all the very best for the future.’

The statement also said they had nothing further to say and thanked friends and family for their support. Those words record their public position in July 2015. They should not be read as a fresh response from McFadden to Williams’s latest reported comments.

How Spencer Matthews and motherhood fit into her answer

Extra.ie reports that Williams met Spencer Matthews while they were contestants on the skiing reality programme The Jump. The Mirror dates their meeting to 2017 and their marriage to 2018, placing that relationship after the period of single life she described.

Both September 30 reports say Williams and Matthews welcomed their fourth child, a son named Remy, earlier in September. That family context explains her reference to breastfeeding during the podcast: she was contrasting her present circumstances with the future she had once imagined.

What the reports establish—and what remains unknown

September 30 is the date of the published reports; the precise recording date and episode are not established here. The quotations are attributed to those reports. Neither article includes a new response from McFadden or announces a forthcoming development connected to the remarks.