Overview
- McLean says she told only family about her money troubles, and that close friend Denise Welch learned the truth from an advance copy of the memoir and felt devastated.
- She left ITV’s Loose Women in 2020 to build This Girl Is On Fire with her husband, a women’s blog and shop that later pivoted to a self-help app.
- McLean says Apple’s App Store rule changes in 2022 blocked the app and, as she battled long Covid, the business folded in 2023.
- The couple describe debts of “hundreds and hundreds of thousands” of pounds, which they cleared by selling their home, cashing her pension, and selling two engagement rings.
- They now rent in southern Spain and keep spending tight, and McLean says even a job application to Starbucks drew no reply as they rebuilt.