Denise Van Outen has revealed her cheating ex Eddie Boxshall took her phone and blocked a woman he had been sexting, so she couldn't tell the Dancing On Ice star about his secret messages.
The telly favourite, 47, was left heartbroken as she dumped him in January after discovering he had been sending x-rated messages to other women behind her back.
Essex beauty Denise has now revealed she tried to reach out to a woman who shared "sexual" conversations with Eddie, but her Instagram account had been blocked when she searched for her.
The Gogglebox star was left puzzled as she had not blocked the woman.
"I quickly found the woman's profile by her screen name, only to discover I'd previously blocked her on my Instagram account - which struck me as odd," Denise penned in her new book A Bit Of Me: From Basildon To Broadway And Back.
Mum-of-one Denise continued: "This was a woman I didn't know, who'd clearly had an online connection with my boyfriend.
"Why would I have blocked her from my Instagram account.
"Straight away, I unblocked her and sent her a message saying how she knew Eddie.
"She suggested that Eddie had probably gone into my phone and blocked her so she couldn't message me."
Denise then opens up about Eddie's conversations with 'Tracy' - who he eventually ghosted.
The star continues in her book: "Her name was Tracy and she has apparently spoken to Eddie over FaceTime and text for a long period - often from our home and sometimes from my flat in Hampstead, which she seemed to think was his.
"They'd never met in person, but she said the conversations had become sexual in nature reasonably quickly - some of the stuff I found on the phone seemed to support that.
"However she was upset with Eddie because he'd apparently ghosted her."
The TV star also detailed the moment she found out Eddie had been unfaithful to her.
She described his behaviour as "disrespectful and devastatingly hurtful" and said that there were red flags once she found photos of a woman's breasts on an iPad.
Denise wrote: "Among photos was a screenshot…of a woman’s breasts – and they definitely weren’t mine!
"Also, there was a flirty text exchange between Eddie and this woman, which, of course, set off alarm bells."
Following her discovery, Denise broke up with Eddie in January, revealing on BBC Radio 2 that she knows her "self-worth".
