Patsy Kensit: 'I will never marry again'

Patsy Kensit has insisted that she will never tie the knot again following her fourth failed marriage earlier this year.

Speaking to She magazine, the actress admitted that the break-up with DJ Jeremy Healy after one year was "embarrassing" and "humiliating".

She explained: "This year has been truly, truly awful. I lost my confidence and ballooned from eight stone to 11. It's embarrassing, humiliating, all those terrible emotions that make you want to run away and hide. I can't tell you how foolish and ashamed I feel.

"But I'm a 42-year-old woman, a single mother. I have a job. I have to get on. There is no crime in falling down, the shame is in not picking yourself up. In life, it's not what happens to you, but how you react to it."

The star added: "I guess I've been looking for security, like everyone else. And yes, I did always want the marriage and family thing, but when I look at it, I was this girl who wanted to be at home, yet I always chose men who spent half their lives out the country."

Kensit originally quit her role on BBC One drama Holby City to focus on her marriage with Healy. Her filming for the serial concludes next month.