Fearne Cotton hits back at claims her marriage is ‘on the rocks’

The DJ married guitarist Jesse Wood in 2014 
Fearne Cotton and Jesse Wood
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Rachel McGrath17 September 2019
The Weekender

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Fearne Cotton hit back at claims her marriage is “on the rocks” after tabloid reports about the fact she sometimes sleeps separately from her husband, Jesse Wood.

Cotton, 38, and Wood, 42, have two children together and got hitched in 2014.

Reports published over the weekend claimed the couple “can’t share a bed” with quotes from Cotton, who said: “I’ve got this stupid neurosis where I have to go to bed before him.”

But the radio presenter has sought to clarify her statement, hitting back at anyone who interpreted her comments as a sign her marriage is in trouble.

Posting a picture of herself and Wood kissing on a beach on Instagram, she wrote: “My marriage IS NOT on the rocks. Here is a photo of me being very in love with my husband.”

“I have recently talked about some sleep problems I have as sometimes when my insomnia is really bad I find it hard to sleep in a bed with Jesse,” she continued.

“Not because we’re on the rocks or struggling within our marriage but because when my mad head is slightly over stretched it likes to cling on to weird mental patterns of behaviour.

“Sometimes it’s panic attacks triggered by being on the motorway, sometimes it’s insomnia due to stress.”

Adding that she’s “actually broken out of this particular neurosis recently”, Cotton wrote: “[I] have been sleeping so well.

“Out of respect for my children and teenage stepchildren I would love this sort of mindless headline to be thought about more carefully.”

Wood’s two older children are from his previous marriage to Tilly Wood.

Cotton has spoken candidly about marriage struggles in the past.

In January she described how she and Wood had “hit a rough patch” that left them “desperately clinging on to our marriage."

One blustery and grey day, this culminated in a screaming match in our local park, which lasted about two hours until we both broke and cried,” she wrote in Red magazine. “In the midst of this gargantuan row, I think we both wondered where the love had gone and worried that it might not come back."

"Love takes hard work - and no one wants to hear that.”

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