Ex-wife of This Morning star hits out at ‘messy’ split after he came out as gay

An ITV doctor has been at the end of a scathing response, after his ex-wife hit back at his retelling of their divorce – due to him coming out 11 years ago.

It isn’t an unheard-of occurrence in the UK. A man being married to a woman for years, sometimes decades, before revealing his sexuality doesn’t align with his current path.

For instance, the whirlwind Philip Schofield story back in 2020, saw him come out as gay after having been married for over 30 years, and sharing two daughters with his wife.

There is also a UK support group for this very situation, known as Gay Married Men, which sees gay men who are married to their straight wives, talk about the challenges of navigating their sexuality later in life.

For Dr Ranj Singh, he too has been vocal about life after his seven-year marriage ended in 2011 and has been met with backlash by his ex for it.

Dr Ranj Singh came out as gay in 2011 (Photo by Simon Ackerman/Getty Images)

The This Morning doc’s ex-wife has issued a response to his story about the moment he came out as gay, revealing the incident left her feeling 'unattractive, ashamed, and not good enough'.

Just last week, Dr Ranj expressed the toll coming out had on his marriage to Sulvinder Samra, and his life.

Taking to Instagram on Thursday, Samra issued her own thoughts on his side of the story.

“I never wanted these words to be my story. Today would have been my 20th wedding anniversary,” she wrote. “I thought my life would go as planned... Work hard. Get a degree. Get a job. Find a partner. Get married. Have kids. Instead I had a messy and painful divorce.”

Explaining she had ‘tried to embrace my new life’ by travelling, partying, and bad relationships, she realised she was ‘carrying beliefs from a failed marriage’ and 'could not trust anyone.’

She explained that after their divorce she ‘did not trust’ herself, wouldn’t 'be a good mum, I'm not good at relationships, I did not deserve any happiness ‘ and more.

However, it was only when she began to heal that things got better for her.

When a follower brought up her ex-husband's motivations for bringing up their painful past as potentially being about fame or money, she said: “yes, it would appear to be that way unfortunately.”

He said it was a difficult time in his relationships (This Morning)

As for what Dr Ranj had explained his past relationship and coming out, and said it brought everything crashing down.

He said: "I was married and obviously that relationship broke down and then it was dealing with everybody else, friends and family. It happened when I'd got to where I was thought I was supposed to be.”

"I had the career I'd always wanted, I always wanted a home of my own. I'd ticked all my boxes. So the big question was, why am I still not 100 per cent happy? Why does it still feel like something's not right? And that's when therapy brought all of that stuff out," he also told The Big Issue in a letter penned to his younger self.

He explained that through therapy, he found out he was not ‘the person I thought I should be or thought I was going to be.’

"This perfect life that you've imagined and hoped for and dreamt of and worked towards isn't your perfect life," he added.

He told the outlet: “I describe it as everything fracturing and then falling apart, and me not knowing how to make head or tail of it, and then gradually building myself up again. “Everything that I’d imagined equated to happiness was not my happiness, it was everybody else’s. And so everything fell apart. You kind of think, who am I? That was terrifying.”

LADbible reached out to Dr Ranj Singh's talent agency for comment.