Peter Crouch admits he had more than just sand between his toes during a recent trip to Dubai with his wife Abbey Clancy and their children.
The former Stoke City and England footballer, 43, visited Wild Wadi water park while on holiday in the United Arab Emirates but was left traumatized by one of its many attractions.
“There’s something called Lazy River, there’s nothing lazy about it, I’ll tell you right away,” he recalled during the latest edition of The Therapy Crouch podcast.
‘So these jets touch you from behind, upwards, right? But it’s like a colonic irrigation; you get a squirt straight to your ring.
The memory sparked hysterical laughter from Abbey, who agreed with the retired footballer’s verdict.
Peter Crouch has revealed he had more than just sand between his toes during a recent trip to Dubai with his wife Abbey Clancy and their children.
The former Stoke City and England footballer, 43, visited Wild Wadi water park while on holiday in the United Arab Emirates but was left traumatized by one of its many attractions.
Located next to Dubai’s Burj Al Arab and Jumeirah Beach hotels, Wild Wadi Water Park includes three pools, seventeen water slides and a variety of water attractions and surf machines.
Abbey opened up about her battle with anxiety and revealed that she uses hypnotherapy to deal with it because it “catastrophizes everything.”
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline about her new podcast venture, Exhibit A, the mother-of-four revealed that her constant worrying “scares her”.
Abbey admitted her mind always thinks of the worst-case scenario and, in January, she visited a doctor after simply wearing a pair of too-tight jeans that made her legs feel numb.
She became nervous and Googled her symptoms, which led her to believe she had multiple sclerosis, which made her anxious.
According to the NHS, multiple sclerosis (MS) is a condition that can affect the brain and spinal cord, causing a wide range of potential symptoms, including problems with vision, movement, sensation or balance of arms or legs.
But since the mishap, Abbey, who was told she did not have MS, went to a hypnotherapist who helped her with her anxieties and said it “worked.”
She told MailOnline: “I really suffer from anxiety about my health and the worst thing you can do is Google the symptoms.”
“It’s something I always do and I’ve had to train myself to overcome it.
‘Sometimes I get scared by self-diagnosis, something I don’t recommend to anyone.
The memory provoked hysterical laughter from Abbey, which coincided with the retired footballer’s verdict.
“But this is something I’ve been working on and I’ve tried hypnotherapy and it works.” Works.’
‘Just be changing your thought process. I catastrophized everything. I’m just a big worrier.’
He added: “So I always go to the worst-case scenario and I’m not completely rational when it comes to… ‘Oh, could it be this, or is this going to happen’?”
“It’s a horrible thing, but it’s something I’m dealing with and I’ve talked about it on our podcast before.”
Abbey explained that she believes the world is going through an “anxiety pandemic” and hopes to talk to the doctors in Exhibit A to give people tools to overcome everyday life and stress.
She revealed that hypnotherapy has changed her way of thinking, but admitted that the process takes practice.
She said: ‘I didn’t get a diagnosis from this. I know the signs myself.
‘It’s basically about retraining your brain to think in a different way. And it works and it takes practice.
“They’re simple things that you can change in your daily life and they help you with all those kinds of things.”