Home & Away's Ada reveals husband's depression

Home & Away's Ada reveals husband's depression
Home & Away's Ada reveals husband's depression

Home and Away star Ada Nicodemou has spoken out about her personal struggle during husband Chrys Xipolitas's battle with depression. The 34-year-old actress - who briefly split from her husband of four years last year - told Australia's Marie Claire magazine she felt helpless and didn't know how to cope with her normally cheerful husband's change in personality, The Australian Daily Telegraph reports. Ada said: "I tried to fix it and I didn't understand why he couldn't snap out of it. "For him, there was a lot of shame in admitting he wasn't OK. I felt helpless." She revealed the couple are now happier than ever and Chrys is medication-free. Ada said: "I think we're a lot stronger because of what we've been through together." The soap star - who plays Summer Bay single mother Leah Patterson-Baker - joined other Australian stars in a photo shoot for the magazine's Shine A Light Campaign, which raises awareness of depression. Ada has signed up to host new TV series, Please Marry My Boy, a reality show in which overbearing mothers try to find wives for their sons.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.