Amie Rohan reached out for help after splitting from Cats star husband

Amie Rohan has spoken about enduring the lowest days of her life after her marriage to Cats’ star husband Gary ended.

Amie Rohan has spoken about her marriage split. Picture: Instagram

Amie Rohan has spoken publicly for the first time about her devastation at discovering her marriage to Geelong footballer Gary was over.

The brave mum of three revealed she was plunged into a “deep depression” when the relationship unexpectedly ended mid last year when Rohan was in the AFL hub.

“I basically probably had the lowest days of my life, I probably fell into a deep depression and I lent on those close to me,” she says.

Amie Rohan said her split from husband Gary plunged her into depression. Picture: Instagram

“I let out everything I was feeling but I think when you have so much emotional attachment and stories you just don’t ever want to go through it.”

The Rohans lost one of their twin daughters Willow only hours after giving birth in 2018. Willow’s twin Bella survived and a sister Sadie was born last March.

In a moving Women of Influence podcast Amie talks about the pain and the process of healing from the loss of their daughter and how the upheaval of last year added to her anguish.

She says she reached out for help after the twins were born and they relocated to the Surf Coast when Gary moved to play for Geelong from the Sydney Swans late in 2018.

At the time she was diagnosed with PTSD, post natal anxiety and post natal depression.

“It wasn’t probably until what happened in my personal life last year that I really got on top of the post natal anxiety because that came out in leaps and bounds,” she says.

Amie with daughters Bella and Sadie. Picture: Instagram

Amie has amassed a supportive following on social media. Picture: Instagram

Amie reflects on the trauma she suffered losing their daughter and the upheaval of moving to Geelong for Gary’s job.

“I said it’s not my job, you’ve got to do what makes you happy but it kind of took me a lot by surprise,” she says.

“It was talked about on and off but I wasn’t ready really to do it then, but then at the same time I was like I can’t make decisions about your career for you so I’ll put it in your hands.”

“It brought a lot of challenges with it as well because you’re sort of split in so many different directions and everyone wants a piece of you and I was still grieving, we were still grieving.”

“The first year was really hard and I’m so glad I put my hand up (for help) when I did. “You’re never going to heal from what we went through 100 per cent, but you can constantly make the effort to work through it and that’s why I put my hand up and got help,” she says.

Amie has built a supportive online community where she openly and honestly talks about her experiences of loss and learning to live as a single parent, with more than 40,000 followers on Instagram.