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Flintoff eating disorder:"I would make myself sick"

Andrew Flintoff reveals eating disorder in ITV show Credit: ITV

Andrew Flintoff's revealed he spent many of his days as an England cricketer battling bulimia.

The former all-rounder from Preston, who also struggled with depression, has revealed for the first time - that he was troubled too by the eating disorder.

If he thought he had over-indulged, he would hide away from team-mates in the toilets during the lunch break and make himself sick - before going back out to bowl or bat for his country. He was talking onon 'Piers Morgan's Life Stories: Andrew Flintoff', to be broadcast on ITV on Friday.

"I thought I couldn't really tell anyone because of the world I was in - professional sport, you don't want to give anything away."

"You almost want to come across as being bullet-proof, and that was part of my make-up."

– Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff