I was obsessed with my job, politics shows.... 1 parked the marriage

THE former Coronation Street star who became Mayor of West Yorkshire has told how politics wrecked her marriage.

- SUE CRAWFORD

Tracy Brabin confirmed she has split from TV director Richard Platt, almost 30 years since they wed.

And the 63-year-old said: "It was very difficult to be married to me because I became a different person.

"I was obsessed with politics shows, with my job, serving my community and to be fair, I parked the marriage.

"While my husband tried to fit in and go along with it, I and go along with it, I think, at the end of the day, I was too absent." Opening up to Loose Women's Kaye Adams on her How to be 60 podcast, Tracy insisted her marriage was not a failure.

The Labour politician said: "We were together for 30 years. We had a wonderful life of marriage and raised two amazing daughters, but I'm in a different phase now.

"There's an enormous strength to being on your own by choice that I am really enjoying and I am now living without guilt. Because I was always perennially guilty that I wasn't spending time at home.

"When somebody is, 'Where are you? Why aren't you home? Oh my God, that thing we organised we're now having to cancel"."