Matt and Emma Willis are teaming up with leading therapists to explore how they help people overcome the challenges of life for a new series called Inside Therapy.

The couple have been open about the rocky times during their 16-year marriage and also how therapy has benefited them individually and their relationship.

In the BBC series, Matt and Emma will be joined by people looking to improve their lives, which will mark the first time cameras capture therapy in action for British TV.

The Busted star, 41, and the presenter, 48, who co-host Netflix dating show Love Is Blind, have already started making the show which is in production.

From the makers of Channel 4’s First Dates, the four-part series will also feature some of Britain’s leading counsellors.

Matt and Emma said: ‘Therapy has played a huge role in our lives. It’s given us the tools to understand ourselves and each other better.

Matt and Emma Willis are teaming up with some of Britain’s leading therapists to explore how they help overcome the challenges that life throws at us 

The couple have been open about the rocky times during their 16-year marriage and also how therapy has benefited them individually and their relationship 

‘With this series we’ll hear from experts and see what really happens in therapy, to help break down the stigma and start conversations.

‘We know therapy isn’t always easy to access, so by bringing it to TV, we hope to give people a window into the process and share tools that could help them navigate their own challenges.’

A source added to The Sun: ‘Matt and Emma are really digging deep into what it looks like to go through therapy with unprecedented access to some of the leading mental health experts.

‘What happens inside therapy sessions must normally stay within those sessions, but some brave individuals have agreed to showcase what it’s really like. The clinic will capture their breakthroughs in real time.

‘It will cover topics from grief and anxiety to relationship struggles and crippling phobias.

‘Matt and Emma make the perfect hosts for this, as both of them have been very open about their own transformative experiences with therapy, including marriage counselling.’  

Matt has been incredibly open about his addiction as he revealed that he turned to drugs and alcohol after feeling ‘less than’ in ‘pretty much every situation’ in his life.

The singer spoke candidly on the Mail’s Life of Bryony podcast with Bryony Gordon which was released in December about his struggles and journey to sobriety.

In the BBC series, Matt and Emma will be joined by people looking to improve their lives, which will mark the first time cameras capture therapy in action for British TV 

Matt and Emma said: ‘Therapy has played a huge role in our lives. It’s given us the tools to understand ourselves and each other better. With this series we’ll hear from experts and see what really happens in therapy, to help break down the stigma’

Matt has been incredibly open about his addiction as he revealed that he turned to drugs and alcohol after feeling ‘less than’ in ‘pretty much every situation’ in his life; pictured 2019 

In a deeply personal and inspiring conversation, Matt opened up about his journey through addiction, recovery, and relapse. 

He also shared his struggles with feelings of discomfort in his own skin and how these challenges shaped his dependency on substances. 

Matt explained why he turned to drugs and alcohol: ‘I’ve always felt less than in pretty much every situation I go into, you know, and I always felt like everyone just thought I was a bit of a d**k. 

‘And that I’d be better off not there and then I found drinking drugs and it went away and it was a solution to my problem until it became my problem that I needed a solution from.

‘It gave me everything I didn’t have. It gave me confidence, it gave me ability to talk to people, to talk to girls, to talk to adults.

‘I was 19 in a world of music and adults and stuff, and I didn’t know how to behave and suddenly I was like, oh right, we can get on it, and everyone’s caught.’

He added: ‘It gave me all that, and then, you know, first it’d give it, then it’d take it away, you know, and, um, And it slowly became the opposite. It was suddenly the person no one wanted to call, no one wanted to invite to anything.

Matt also recalled what saved him from his addiction, explaining: ‘What saved me was another addict. 

‘I very vividly remember the first time the light bulb got switched on, you know, and it was from another addict who said something to me which I can’t say because I’ll f***ing break down but it was another addict who saved me and changed my life.

The boy band star struggled to stay sober for most of his adult life after being launched to fame at just 19 years old

He entered rehab three times before he turned 25 – including once shortly before he married his The Voice presenter wife, Emma in 2008

Though he is now sober, Matt relapsed once more in 2017 while on the Busted reunion tour when his youngest daughter Trixie was just ten months old

‘And I have everything to thank for that moment, and I had to keep working at it, but that was part of the message was that this is not going away. You can’t shove it away anymore.’

‘You have to address it. You’re probably gonna have to address it every day, but it’s worth it And that’s been my experience, you know, it has been worth it and it was really hard at times but now it’s not quite so hard.

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‘When I say not quite so hard, it’s nowhere near as f***ing hard. Life is pretty awesome right now, you know, and that’s achievable for people.’

The boy band star struggled to stay sober for most of his adult life after being launched to fame at just 19 years old. 

He entered rehab three times before he turned 25 – including once shortly before he married his The Voice presenter wife, Emma in 2008. 

Though he is now sober, Matt relapsed once more in 2017 while on the Busted reunion tour when his youngest daughter Trixie was just ten months old. 

Speaking to previously about his addiction, he admitted: ‘Addicts are very good at hiding everything. I’m yet to meet a stupid addict. They’re conniving and manipulative.

‘It’s not rock ‘n’ roll. It wasn’t glamorous, it was really sad.’

In his early 20s the singer said couldn’t get to lunchtime without drugs or alcohol.  

Later, on the 2017 tour, he ‘was doing six grams (of cocaine) on my own every day and not coming home until three in the morning’ – a month after he started taking the drug again.

Matt made a documentary Fighting Addiction with the BBC last year.

He said at the time that making the documentary made him realise the impact his addiction was having on Emma, who would often break down in tears over fears he could relapse.