Conor Maynard speaks on paternity drama and ‘really difficult’ past year

Singer Conor Maynard has spoken about his paternity drama with The Traitors star Charlotte Chilton and said the last year has been “really difficult ”.

Chilton publicly claimed last year that the R U Crazy singer is the father to her daughter Penelope, who was born in October 2024.

In March this year, the music artist, 32, said in a social media post that he had taken a paternity test and that the results “confirm that I am not Penelope’s father ”.

Maynard, who had maintained his silence prior to the social media post in March, told ITV’s This Morning: “One of the main reasons I felt like right now was the right time to speak about it was because … the last year has been really difficult, and mental health is something that I’ve struggled with for a big portion of my life.

“Obviously, this most recent year has been definitely up there, in terms of my experience and my battle with it, and I’ve never really shied away from that in the sense, you know, my fans who follow me online and on social media, I’ve spoken about it openly before.

“Today I’ve released a brand new song, which goes quite deeply into my battle with anxiety and obviously there have been a lot of things that have happened, and there’s a lot of things that have contributed to why things have been so difficult. ”

He continued: “What was probably one of the most difficult aspects of the entire situation was it was so kind of shocking to me how it seemed like there was such a failure from the public, and also sometimes even from the press, to require proof before condemning me for something that, obviously, ultimately ended up being false and being not true. ”

He added: “It was just very difficult to kind of understand that this was all happening without anyone really knowing the true story, or anyone really knowing whether or not it was completely true.

“I think what was difficult for me was, instinctively, you want to defend yourself, you want to be able to speak your side, but I didn’t know what was true and what was Не. ”

Попитал дали му е казано за бременността на Чилтън преди медийната стихия, той сподели:„ Преди бях наясно със обстановката, само че нямах визия, че това ще отиде на пресата. Съответно.

обява, споделена от Conor Maynard (@conormaynard)

„ Очевидно това не е методът, по който вървеше. И мисля, че беше мъчно да мълча. ”

Той добави:„ Веднага бях оцветен като Deadbeat и… всички мои мнения във всичките ми обществени медии бяха доста за това. Нещо, и знам, че може да се смята за рисково за дете, което към момента не се е родило, а също и когато те са доста рано в живота.

„ Аз просто чаках и разреших това решение да пристигна от другата страна. “

Мейнард удостовери, че двамата са се срещнали на празненството с другите й презитисти в състезателите. Хотел Raffles в Лондон за предатели след празненство, проведени от спечелилия Хари Кларк, чиято другарка, Анна, е сестра на Мейнард.

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