Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, the show that encourages you to lay your soul bare.

Today I'm meeting Matt Willis.

Everything about me is some way linked to addiction.

In one way or another, everything that I do, I find myself tracing it back to some kind of drink or drug problem or a new addiction which I picked up.

Matt has had an unbelievably varied career, shooting to fame in the early naughties as the bassist in Boston.

Before going on to make solo music, perform in musical theatre, act on TV, be crowned king of the IMA celebrity jungle and now host a podcast called On the Mend where he chats to people about their addictions.

We've obviously had his gorgeous wife Emma on the podcast before, God I love Emma, but this was the first time I got to sit down with Matt for a proper, deep chat at our Happy Place festival in Tatton Park.

We talked about loads of stuff, the moment he realised drugs and alcohol were no longer serving him, learning to take responsibility for his actions and reactions and the shame that can engulf you if you relapse.

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It's a beautiful chat, let's do it, here's the show.

A butterfly just sort of followed you in, what a beautiful fairy tale moment.

Oh Matt. Yeah I've released them backstage, what's going on.

Matt welcome, it's our lovely audience. Hello everyone. Hi, get a good weekend.

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