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Amanda Abbington has been making headlines this week following her bombshell TV interviews recounting her alleged "toxic" stint on Strictly Come Dancing with Giovanni Pernice.
Throughout the years, Amanda, 50, has faced numerous challenges in the spotlight, including battles with her mental health during particularly tough times. She previously shared her
harrowing thoughts following her split from long-time partner Martin Freeman, 52, where she tragically wondered about her life's worth. She said last year on the Full Disclosure
podcast: "It was breaking up with Martin and then realising I needed to sort myself out because I was a bit of a mess. I hated myself." The BBC Sherlock actress and her former
co-star split after a 16-year relationship in 2016. They met in 2000 on the set of Men Only and they have two children together: Joe, 18, and Grace, 16. Martin Freeman, who is usually
reserved about his private life, has only recently opened up about their split. The Office actor confirmed he had separated from Amanda during an interview with the Financial Times in 2016.
He declared: "I'm not with Amanda anymore. It's very, very amicable - I'll always love Amanda." Amanda later shared the reason for their breakup, admitting they
"just couldn't live with each other any more". Speaking to the Sunday Times Magazine, Amanda said: "When we broke up nobody knew, we didn't tell anybody except for a
few key people because they had to know, because of the logistics of hotels and stuff. "It took six months for it to get out and a lot of that was while we were working on Sherlock...
We were professional and we were going to get on and make a show and be civil to each other." Since their split, the pair have both found new loves. Martin has been romantically linked
to French actress Rachel Mariam, famed for her work as a scriptwriter and producer. Amanda is engaged to stuntman Jonathan Goodwin after first crossing paths on X, previously known as
Twitter, back in 2012. Confessing about her romance while speaking to The Guardian, she revealed: "We were both in relationships at the time, but we admired each other's work and
occasionally liked each other's tweets." They met in person years later and Jonathan proposed within half an hour of their first date. However, tragedy struck just weeks later when
Jonathan suffered a catastrophic fall during an American's Got Talent stunt that went awry. During a perilous suspension act, Jonathan plummeted 30 feet, missing the air mattress and
instead being crushed between two cars that erupted in flames. After his devastating accident, Jonathan offered Amanda an out, but she confessed her unwavering love for him, insisting on
going ahead with the wedding. She said: "Breaking up never flashed through my mind. I just thanked God he was alive."