Brenda Edwards made a candid confession during the latest instalment of Loose Women as she spoke openly about the previous financial struggles she hid from her family
Loose Women star Brenda Edwards has opened up on the previous debt she incurred and admitted she kept it a secret from her husband.
The popular daytime show was back for another instalment on Tuesday (September 10) with Ruth Langsford, Linda Robson, Janet Street-Porter and Brenda on the panel. Leading the conversation, Ruth asked the women about their previous financial struggles after it was revealed that Strictly Come Dancing’s Kristina Rihanoff and her fiancé, Ben Cohen admitted to being in seriousdebt.
Sharing her take, Brenda said: "I've spoken about the debt that I had and it was thousands." She continued: "It was a college debt from years ago but I went into a marriage with it and I didn't tell my ex-husband about it because it was my debt and I wanted to take care of it."
"It was the interest! And I didn't realise at the time when I took it out in college that the interest was something like 38%, so I was always paying off the interest and not the debt.
"It just got worse and worse which was very upsetting and then a friend helped me out and gave me a lumpsum because they're giving me the lumpsum to pay of everything. When asked if she told anyone about her financial issues at the time, Brenda confirmed that she didn't.
She said: "No, I didn't talk to anybody about it! Not the kids, not my ex, not anybody. I just wanted to deal with it and I dealt with it but that's why I don't do credit cards."
The conversation then led Linda to share her own personal story too. Prompting her to open up, Ruth mentioned that Linda's daughter now manages her finances.
Linda revealed that she previously had a lot of money coming in from her hit BBC show Birds of a Feather and advertisements. But it soon ran out when she racked up debt with credit store cards.
She said: "I kept it a secret. Then I ended up dovet diving, I ended up staying in bed all day worrying about it," she confessed.
Loose Women airs weekdays at 12:30pm on ITV1.
