MasterChef’s Julie Goodwin discusses her recovery after checking into a mental health facility

MasterChef winner Julie Goodwin has discussed her recovery from severe depression after she checked into a mental health facility for five weeks last year.  

Speaking on The Morning Show, the 50-year-old said she relies on exercise, therapy and medication to maintain good mental health.

‘I’m working hard and I’m doing all the things I have got to do. There’s quite a lot of things in place like self-care stuff,’ she told hosts Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies. 

‘There’s exercise, and therapy, and medication, and a lot of different things that have to be maintained for me to maintain my health. 

‘And I’m doing those things and some days are better than others, but life is beautiful and most of the time I am able to really enjoy and embrace that,’ she added. 

In an interview with the Gold Coast Bulletin in October, she explained she’d been ‘really unwell’ when she checked into a mental health facility for five weeks in February 2020.

‘I could not find a single grain of energy or joy or anything. I was so worn down and I was physically really, really unwell,’ she said.

Julie called her time in hospital was ‘very humbling’ and said: ‘the people that were surrounding me (in hospital) were just really beautiful people and everyone had their own struggles in their own way.’

While the last year has been a challenge for the TV cook, Julie is confident of a happy 2021 following the arrival of her first granddaughter, Delilah Marlene, last month.

She shared a photo of herself and husband Mick cuddled up to the new addition to the family.

‘A brand new life. For all of us, I think. Welcome to the world baby Delilah Marlene,’ the new grandmother wrote in the caption.

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