Michelle Mone: 'The fighting between Michael and I drove me to contemplate suicide'

HER rise to fame and fortune is a Hollywood director's dream come true - but Michelle Mone's life hasn't always been so dreamy.

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MIchelle Mone has admitted she contemplated suicide after fighting with her ex-husband

The 43-year-old Glaswegian beauty has spoken of the difficulties she's suffered during her life, including a bitter fight with her now ex-husband Michael.

My drive to stay at the top contributed to the bitter breakdown of my marriage

In an extract from her book, My Fight To The Top, published in the Mail Online, Michelle speaks of her "bitter" marriage breakdown and physical fights between her and her then-husband.

The star, who is the CEO of underwear brand Ultimo, wrote: "My drive to stay at the top contributed to the bitter breakdown of my marriage, drove me to binge-eat and drink and lost me friends — Rod Stewart among them."

She added: "When I decided to write my memoirs, I didn’t set out to chronicle my marital problems, but I can hardly gloss over them when, at one point, the fighting between Michael and I drove me to contemplate suicide — a low point I could never have imagined in the very early days of our relationship."

The star reveals she contemplated taking her own life after a row with Michael, and explained during another argument with him on a flight to Miami he bit her ear so hard it bled.

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The star said she and Michael were often fighting during their marriage

She said: "I burst out crying and he gagged me with his hand. I swear I thought he was suffocating me. I lashed out with my nails to get him off me and he bit my right ear.

"I clasped my hand over it to stop the pain and, when I pulled it away, it was covered in blood."

Michelle has previously spoken out about about her heartbreaking split from Michael back in 2012, revealing she cried herself to sleep every night.

But, rising above it, she recently took to Twitter to congratulate her ex-husband on his new engagement.

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Michelle and Michael split in 2012 after years of marriage

It just so happens Michelle's ex-husband Michael is thought to be engaged to former Ultimo employee Samantha Bunn.

Talking to Jane Garvey on Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Michelle said: "I cried myself to sleep every night and during the day as well. I was just absolutely distraught.

"I thought 'How could you, with a member of my team that I've managed for four years?'. How could she lie to me so much and stay in my house next door and have dinner at night with my kids? How could he have a relationship with her? I was absolutely shattered by it."

My Fight To The Top by Michelle Mone, published by Blink on March 5 at £18.99.

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