Heartbreaking News… Loose Women’s Ruth Langsford ‘CRYING INSIDE’ as she Opens Up on empty home

Ruth Langsford has admitted she was crying inside when the son she shares with ex Eamonn Holmes left home.

The presenter opened up on ITV’s Loose Women on Monday (September 8) during a discussion about empty nest syndrome. The panellists were talking about a woman who went viral after sharing a video showing her crying at the idea of her children going off to university.

Ruth, 65, confessed that she was devastated when her son Jack, who is now 23, left home. “I didn’t think it would be me,” she said.

“I thought, you know, I’ve got a busy life and da da da, and you know what it was, it was more, I was very excited for Jack going to uni.

“I always showed my excitement, so helping him get all his stuff and actually get this duvet… and inside going (pretends to cry), but going, ‘Isn’t this exciting? Gosh, I wish I’d gone to university, blah, blah, blah.”

The star – who split from Eamonn in 2024 – went on: “It was the coming home, and the emptiness, and it was actually, it’s not that Jack spent loads of time with me, they don’t, you just come in and go, and gone.

“But it’s that you physically lay eyes on them every day, and suddenly they’re away, you don’t know what they’re doing, how they are.”

Ruth’s co-star Coleen Nolan revealed she also found it hard when her children moved on.

She said she used to think empty next syndrome was “not a thing” and that the woman complaining about it “needs to get a life”.

“And then they all started to leave,” said the mum-of-three. “And I hit menopause. And all of a sudden, I sat there one day and I went, ‘Oh, my God, it’s real. It’s a real thing, empty nest’.”

Coleen said she felt “redundant from everything”.

“I’d spent years being somebody’s everything,” she said. “And now I felt no one needed me. And I felt even Mother Nature was going, ‘That’s enough now, dear. Off you pop’.”

“But genuinely, it really, really, and I think if I hadn’t have had, a, my kids to talk to about it, but also my family and friends, I really would have felt, I really think I would have got really, suffered really badly with depression because, I don’t know, I just felt so redundant to everyone,” said the star.