‘I had nobody’: Meg Mathews reveals she suffered ‘terrible PTSD’ after the breakdown of her marriage to Oasis rocker Noel Gallagher
Meg Mathews has revealed she suffered ‘terrible Post Traumatic Stress Disorder’ after the breakdown of her marriage with Oasis frontman, Noel Gallagher.
The former party girl, 54, who was married to the rocker between 1997 and 2001, felt like she had ‘no one’ to talk to as their relationship began to collapse.
Meg told The Mirror: ‘I came through the marriage, everything was public. At the end of the day I did not have the cog or the PR world that that person [Noel] had.
Looking back: Meg Mathews revealed she suffered ‘terrible PTSD’ following her relationship breakdown with Noel Gallagher (pictured July 2019)
‘I was just the ex-wife, I had nobody. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t have a press agent, wasn’t famous, I just had a daughter.
‘I used to get terrible PTSD. In 1997 I was the third most written about woman. It was Lady Diana, The Spice Girls and me.’
PTSD is a mental health condition triggered by a terrifying event which can cause symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety.
Hard times: The former party girl, 54, said she had ‘no one’ and did not know what to do without any guidance or PR (pictured in 2000)
The wild pair divorced and Noel met his future wife, publicist Sara MacDonald, in an Ibiza club.
Earlier this week, Meg revealed she would regularly blow up to £4,000 a night on drugs and alcohol when she was married to the Wonderwall hitmaker.
Meg told The Sun: ‘Everybody would be in the room, drinking all the mini bar, calling loads of dealers – £3,000 later walking down the stairs with the mascara running down my face, a heel broken off my shoe and going home for what?
‘It would be £4,000 later. And for what? The walk of shame. But by the end you don’t care.’
Looking back: Meg was married to the Oasis guitarist between 1997 and 2001 (pictured in 1998)
She said of her party days: ‘I was maybe a bit aggressive. I was not the nicest. I was not a happy bunny. Always blackouts.’
She has since become a vocal advocate of women with menopause being given flexible working hours after she started going through her menopause at age 49.
Meg began to experience night sweats and crippling anxiety that at one stage made her reluctant to leave her house for three months.
And she admitted she was upset when the menopause caused her period to stop, although she always knew that she only wanted one child.
Meg shared: ‘I used to get terrible PTSD. In 1997 I was the third most written about woman. It was Lady Diana, The Spice Girls and me’ (pictured in 2000)