Denise Van Outen looks dark after revealing Eddie Boxshall was shot for three years

Denise Van Outen looked depressed as she was caught in the rain after opening up about her separation from Eddie Boxshall.

The presenter, 47, kept her head down as she went out in North London on Wednesday while she was casually dressed in a tracksuit.

She kept her head down in a padded black jacket and tie dye jogger along with high top trainers.

The low-profile outing came as Denise opened up about her separation from her seven-year-old boyfriend, revealing that she had caught Eddie, 48, sexually flirting with three women and described his behavior as “respectful and destructively harmful”.

The actress broke up with her seven-year-old partner on January 7 after being reported having phone sex with other women.

Denise revealed that she found pictures and Instagram messages on Eddie’s iPad, detailing her new autobiography, A Bit Of Me: From Basildon To Broadway And Back.

She said: “Among photos was a screenshot … of a woman’s breasts – and they were definitely not mine!

‘Also, there was a flirtatious text exchange between Eddie and this woman, who of course sounded the alarm bells.’

The star admitted that the exchange happened in a week that she had booked a Spanish holiday, explaining: “Eddie decided not to come to Spain because he did not feel well.

“While I was sympathetic, I was a little confused why he could not chill with me next to the pool, but he was able to get it to go to the pub anyway.”

Denise also discovered selfies of Eddie with a woman in a bar one day when he told her he was in London for business.

She noticed by looking at the contour of the woman’s chest, she was not the same in the first photos. She also found messages suggesting “phone sex” with a third woman named Tracy.

Denise decided to contact Tracy and said, “They had never met in person, but she said the conversations had become sexual in nature pretty quickly – some of the things I found on the phone seem to be that ‘support.’

She added: “For me, sexual chats and further communication over a long period of time are considered cheating.

‘Especially when it’s made from a house, I would have tried to build for us as a family. A home that Eddie found and I bought for us.

A home we had just moved to when it all started. It was disrespectful and devastating. ‘

Denise confronted Eddie about the women, but he denied doing anything wrong and she told him to leave.

The star, who has an eight-year-old daughter with ex-husband Lee Mead, insisted: “The thing I struggled with the most was that it was not just a person, a mistake or a drunk night. This was something ‘which has been going on for more than three years. I felt betrayed.’

She “cried her mother” heartily, adding: “I was in pain and shock. I thought we had the perfect life.

‘Every relationship must be built on trust and once that is gone, there is no way forward. If I had not found those photos, I would now be planning a wedding. Instead, I just have to move on. ‘

Addressing the grief at Thursday’s episode of Lorraine, she said: ‘I’m fine, I’m feeling good now. I was not in a great place but these things happened.

“I was not the first person to happen to that and I will not be the last. There are no hard feelings on my part. I have to accept what my future will be now and that is just moving forward.”

On Wednesday, Denise said she was ‘really proud’ of herself because she knew when to leave.

She told Radio 2 on Tuesday: “The only thing I’m really proud of is that I know when I’m leaving and I do not want to be taken advantage of.

Sometimes it was to the detriment of my own career or in my own relationship, but I just feel like it’s really important to have self-esteem and self-respect as a woman.

‘I’ve always tried to keep that in mind in everything I do in life, in general. More now as a mother, because I feel like I’m a role model and I have to set an example. ‘

Denise went to the muse to see the light at the end of the tunnel, and remarked, “The bad times are always followed by good times and that’s what I always enjoy.

“I mean, you just ride on the wave of bad times and know you’ll end up in a good place.”

Confirming their separation in an Instagram post, Denise wrote: “In the last few months there has been a lot of speculation about my relationship with Eddie.

“It saddens me to confirm that we are no longer a couple. I had to make the difficult decision not to continue in our relationship.

‘I will always remember the good times we spent together and the memories. We ask you to respect our privacy at this time, especially for our children. ‘

Eddie is reported ‘desperate’ Denise to win back made his ex-fiancé homage to mark International Women’s Day last Tuesday.

The DJ took to his Instagram story to post a radiant snap of presenter Denise, her daughter Betsy, 11, calling her “hard working”, “driven” and an “amazing mummy”.

Eddie wrote in her post to her: “No matter how sad we go our separate ways, I must admit that in our wonderful 7 and a half years relationship I became the hardest working and most driven woman in her business and an amazing mummy. Betsy have seen #neverstops #upmostrespect ‘.

Elsewhere in her book, Denise revealed that she was a victim of revenge porn when an ex-boyfriend claimed he had a band of her having sex at the age of just 15.

The West End stage star said the ex did not sell the band to a newspaper in the 1990s because a date on the video shows she was under the legal age of sexual consent.

She said the man, who is referred to as “Mike”, was questioned by police, who found that he had taken dozens of girls.

The case went to court, but he was not jailed. The judge warned him he would be sent to prison if any of the contents of the tapes ever appeared.

Denise revealed the nightmare in her new autobiography: “Revenge porn is widely talked about today, but it was not a widespread term back then.

“Look back, Mike could be manipulative – cruel, even. We dated for over a year and in the end Mike was the boy I lost my virginity to.

She said of the band, which was formed a year later: “At that time, I felt shocked and strengthened.

‘Mike calculated it all. He was waiting for me to make it big so he could peddle his creepy band. ‘

The band was to be formed in 1989, when Denise was just 15 years old.

Speaking in the Thursday episode of Lorraine, she said: “It was a hard thing to take care of because I was young and it reappeared years later as soon as I was on television.

“Being sidelined and going through a lawsuit was really quite difficult. I never really addressed it. I just buried it. It’s something that needed to be addressed because it affected me.”

Speaking on GB News on Thursday, Eamonn Holmes paid Denise Hommage to talk about her sexband ordeal, calling her “brave”.

He said: “This is a really important story and an important topic and good on Denise for raising awareness about it. It’s horrible what she went through and more needs to be done to ensure that those responsible for these kinds of things are punished .

‘I know someone else in the public eye who was secretly recorded and we’re probably not talking enough about it.’