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"Olly Murs has revealed that he had a small battle with drink and depression last year. The &amp;#039;Troublemaker&amp;#039; singer explained in his upcoming autobiography Happy Days that a bad appearance on 8 Out of 10 Cats was his only &amp;quot;two cranky weeks&amp;quot; in his career so far.  &amp;quot;For the first time in my career I didn&amp;#039;t feel happy,&amp;quot; he wrote. &amp;quot;I was so drained and down. I wasn&amp;#039;t enjoying anything I was doing. I was just working, working, working.&amp;quot; Murs had recently hit number one with &amp;#039;Heart Skips a Beat&amp;#039; last year when he reached a low point. &amp;quot;Strangely enough, although I was proper ecstatic about the number one, after the initial excitement I started to feel a bit odd. &amp;quot;I couldn&amp;#039;t put my finger on why but I started to sense that something wasn&amp;#039;t right. I did 8 Out of 10 Cats with \u00C2\u00ADcomedian Jimmy Carr, but I wasn&amp;#039;t really myself. &amp;quot;After &amp;#039;Heart Skips A Beat&amp;#039; hit number one, I barely had a chance to celebrate &amp;#039;cos it was straight over to the Judges&amp;#039; Houses for the Xtra Factor, filming in Greece, LA and Spain. &amp;quot;The new album was coming out so there was all of that to complete. It all just merged into one, without a break. I was exhausted. &amp;quot;It wasn&amp;#039;t just the workload. I was anxious about how I&amp;#039;d be received on The Xtra Factor. Would people like it? Was my music going to be affected? How would I handle the live shows? How would my next single do? My head was spinning...&amp;quot; He explained that usually his manager Sarah Thomas would provide him with background to help prepare for TV show appearances, but he decided to ignore her advice for 8 Out of 10 Cats.   &amp;quot;I couldn&amp;#039;t face it,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I was like, &amp;#039;Yeah, whatever, I&amp;#039;ll just blag it...&amp;#039; The whole thing was a disaster. Not Jimmy or any of the other guests or the show itself, just me. &amp;quot;I was rubbish. I hardly said \u00C2\u00ADanything, I pretty much just sat there, feeling strange. My head was all over the place. &amp;quot;I came off the set and Sarah had a right go at me \u00E2\u20AC\u201C she was really cross I hadn&amp;#039;t bothered to do my research and said it wasn&amp;#039;t like me.&amp;quot; Thomas and his tour manager Mark Murphy later warned him against making such a decision, and told him that they were worried about his behaviour. &amp;quot;I sat there and listened to them shouting and then I just started crying. Mark was like, &amp;#039;I think you could be depressed&amp;#039;. I was getting even more defensive now. I was like, &amp;#039;Me? Depressed? I&amp;#039;m not f**king \u00C2\u00ADdepressed! Why would I be depressed?&amp;#039; &amp;quot;We chatted in that dressing room for hours and I gradually started to become less defensive. I knew what they were saying was fair enough.&amp;quot; He continued by saying that he started turning to alcohol following an appearance on Celebrity Juice, where he was allowed to drink on set. &amp;quot;I remember getting really drunk, I felt like I just wanted to drink \u00E2\u20AC\u201C note that word, &amp;#039;wanted&amp;#039; to drink. I&amp;#039;ve never \u00C2\u00AD&amp;#039;wanted&amp;#039; to drink in my life! I enjoy a few beers with the lads like everyone does, but this was different.   &amp;quot;After Celebrity Juice I was like, &amp;#039;Give me another vodka!&amp;#039; and I was getting really pissed. I felt like I needed a boost and drinking was that boost. But of course the boost didn&amp;#039;t last, and when I sobered up I was back to being unhappy again. &amp;quot;Looking back, I don&amp;#039;t think I was depressed, as it happens \u00E2\u20AC\u201C I was just exhausted, run-down. I was sitting there crying even though my career could not have been \u00C2\u00ADgoing any better. Something clearly wasn&amp;#039;t right.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;I know I&amp;#039;m really lucky to do what I do but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don&amp;#039;t get to see my family and friends as much as I&amp;#039;d like. &amp;quot;It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own it can be an anti-climax. &amp;quot;But I love it and I guess that&amp;#039;s why I surround myself with a team I get on with \u00E2\u20AC\u201C they&amp;#039;ve become my &amp;#039;on the road&amp;#039; family and they help me get through the tough moments. &amp;quot;Those two difficult weeks around 8 Out of 10 Cats were the only time in my career that I was cranky and moody. Let&amp;#039;s just say I had a low moment there.&amp;quot; The singer&amp;#039;s autobiography Happy Days will be released on October 11. Olly Murs releases his new single &amp;#039;Troublemaker&amp;#039; on November 11. New! Digital Spy breakfast show - watch Anna Williamson discuss the day&amp;#039;s biggest stories including The X Factor, Homeland and Leona Lewis:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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