{"id":2784,"date":"2025-07-20T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:14:49","slug":"trinny-woodall-opens-up-on-ex-husbands-suicide-and-says-theres-nothing-i-could-have-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/trinny-woodall-opens-up-on-ex-husbands-suicide-and-says-theres-nothing-i-could-have-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinny Woodall opens up on ex-husband\u2019s suicide and says there\u2019s \u2018nothing I could have done\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trinny Woodall praised mental health charities after the death of ex-husband Johnny Elichaoff (Picture: Max Cisotti\/Dave Benett\/Getty Images for ME+EM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Trinny Woodall<\/a> has said there was ‘nothing she could have done’ about her ex-husband Johnny Elichaoff\u2019s suicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Woodall and Elichaoff got married in 1999 and split 10 years later, with Elichaoff dying by taking his own life in 2014, aged 55.<\/p>\n

He fell to his death from a car park roof following a 20-year battle with a painkiller addiction.<\/p>\n

On Fearne Cotton\u2019s Happy Place podcast<\/a>, the 61-year-old reflected on the former drummer and businessman\u2019s death and praised the work of charities<\/a> looking into mental health<\/a> and suicide.<\/p>\n

Asked about her regrets by Cotton, the makeup mogul<\/a> said: ‘I think going back to earlier, it\u2019s that would\u2019ve, should\u2019ve, could\u2019ve\u2014so do I regret that I didn\u2019t do more for my ex-husband to stop him killing himself? No, because there was nothing I could have done.<\/p>\n

‘So to ponder on the regret of somebody who kills himself, it can take you into the darkest hole, but you can also know when somebody who is in that situation switches off, and that is their path, and nobody can get in. I had to learn.’<\/p>\n

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Woodall and Johnny Elichaoff were married for 10 years until 2009 when they divorced amicably (Picture: David Fisher\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The beauty entrepreneur spoke to Fearne Cotton on her podcast about the impact of Elichaoff’s death in 2014 (Picture: Jed Cullen\/Dave Benett\/Getty Images for Vogue)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Woodall said there are ‘fabulous charities’ working in the area of mental health and suicide, which she said is the biggest cause of death in men under 50.<\/p>\n

The former What Not To Wear host went on to speak about how she guided her daughter Lyla<\/a>, who was 11 at the time, through Elichaoff\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

‘When I heard about Lyla\u2019s dad, Lyla was at school, and my first challenge was how can I even tell her, how can I say the words to tell her,’ she explained.<\/p>\n

‘My sister was a friend of a woman called Julia Samuel, who wrote an amazing book, Grief Works, and she\u2019s fantastic.<\/p>\n

‘Julia came around to our house, and I just said, “I need some words”, and so she said, “You\u2019re going to tell her he had a heart attack in his head”.<\/p>\n

‘We told her (Lyla), and she screamed really loudly, and it was like an animal scream, and then 20 minutes later she\u2019s downstairs getting a snack, so children\u2019s absorption of what has happened is that there\u2019s that gut; she really loved her dad.’<\/p>\n

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He fell to his death from a car park roof following a 20-year battle with a painkiller addiction (Picture: Richard Young\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Woodall said Lyla at the time ‘couldn’t quite understand’ her father’s death until they had the cremation that created ‘a real awareness.’<\/p>\n

‘There\u2019s a lot of people saying, “I\u2019m so sorry about your dad, Lyla,” so she\u2019s manic a little, she was running around with her friends, and then there was a memorial only 10 days after that, and there were 1,200 people in the church,’ Woodall continued.<\/p>\n

‘Lyla got up and read If (the poem by Rudyard Kipling), but she didn\u2019t read it; she said it with nothing and didn\u2019t cry, and it wasn\u2019t that she was being strong.’<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the podcast, the beauty entrepreneur, who founded Trinny London, was also asked if she regrets taking drugs for a decade after overcoming her addiction issues in her twenties.<\/p>\n

She added: ‘I actually don\u2019t, because it gave me such a depth of having to deal with life at an early age, some testing things that it rounded me up more as a person.<\/p>\n

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The TV personality shared how her daughter Lyla coped with the death of her father (Picture: Dave Benett\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘When I got into my 30s, I had a lot of experience to draw on to be resilient, so thereby I don\u2019t regret that it happened, and I should draw upon it.’<\/p>\n

Woodall expanded to RTE<\/a> in 2023: ‘I\u2019ve had many life lessons that made me look at myself differently. When I realised I couldn\u2019t use drugs and I had to stop, that was a tough life lesson. And I thought I could never stop\u2014I was so scared I could never stop.<\/p>\n

‘But I did. And the strength it took to stop brought with it a whole load more fear, because when you stop using a substance [and] end up in rehab, they sort of peel back the layers of an onion, and you\u2019re left feeling that everything that\u2019s been a band-aid, which you put on that onion, has been removed. And you\u2019re like, “but I have no support here,” and feel very raw and wobbly.’<\/p>\n

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For emotional support, you can call the Samaritans<\/a> 24-hour helpline on 116 123<\/strong>, email jo@samaritans.org<\/a>, visit a Samaritans branch in person<\/a> or go to the Samaritans website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their HOPELINE247 <\/a>is open every day of the year, 24 hours a day. You can call 0800 068 4141, text 88247 or email: pat@papyrus-uk.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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