Saturday Kitchen star Alysia Vasey has revealed she is struggling amid her divorce, telling followers she is sleeping on a couch and has been left with five bin liners of clothes.
Living arrangements revealed
The 54-year-old, known as The Yorkshire Forager, often appears on James Martin's ITV cooking show. She recently announced she was heading for divorce despite only marrying her husband last year. In an Instagram post, she described her difficult living arrangements.
She wrote: "Thank you for all your support. You’ve managed to rebuild and come out the other end, it’s just tough. I’ve been left with five bin liners of clothes before Christmas, it’s hard."
Emotional message to followers
She added: "So just reach out to everybody else because I’m not the only one going through it. There’s just been massive support and it means the world."
In the caption, she wrote: "Five bin liners of clothes were all I were left with at 54-years-old a week before Christmas, I had just had to buy a tonne of coal, spent Nans bit of inheritance money on replacing two logburners, bought a new cooker, a new stand up fridge and everything in for Christmas."
She continued: "Thank you for all your support it means the world, and to all those going through what am going through especially, to those sleeping on a couch, to those trying to cope what’s happening to them, to those who like me are trying to take small steps forward. I know it’s hard, you didn’t deserve it. None of us did."
Opening up about the split
The forager and former teacher recently opened up about her divorce in a video, saying: "So this is a hard one. So I feel like coming clean because there’s no point wearing a wedding ring when your marriage is over. And it has been since before Christmas. I know I haven’t been married long."
She didn't specify the exact reasons behind her failed marriage but added: "I’m a big believer in love, marriage, everything. But I just got taken for a ride. Got all the money taken from me. Everything. Absolutely everything. It’s been a struggle."
She concluded: "Absolute struggle these last eight, nine months. I didn’t expect it. I feel a bit embarrassed by it all, but it is what it is. So I’m on my own and I didn’t expect that. Anyway, I feel like I’ve come clean now, so it is what it is, isn’t it? Anyway, goodnight. I hope you’re all well."
