ABC in turmoil: Ginger Zee ANNOUNCES EXIT FROM GMA – Shocking truth revealed about her Darkest days! WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
Her time away from GMA comes after she detailed her harrowing mental health journey in a brutally honest interview. Ginger featured on a recent episode of the Quite Frankly podcast, where she opened up about how being diagnosed with depression at age 21 and how suffering from an eating disorder had an impact on her mental health.
The TV star’s poor mental health led to her checking herself into a hospital just 10 days before she landed her job on GMA. “Ten days before everybody saw me take this dream job of national television, I checked myself into the Columbia psych ward,” she said.
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Ginger has been open about her health struggles in the past
“At least we’re getting to a point where we can talk about it. I went to the hospital because I needed to go to the hospital. I needed help. I should’ve done it 10 years before.”
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Ginger Zee was diagnosed with depression aged 21
She added: “What the inpatient situation does for you, it’s not fun. It’s so scary. At first, I was looking around like, ‘I don’t need to be here.’ But they assess you and they were not going to let me leave until I was not unsafe. I