McFly's Danny Jones on Overcoming Trauma, Anxiety, & I'm a Celeb Secrets (E324)

Before we get started, let me tell you you can now listen to High Performance Add Free. Start your free trial now on Apple, Spotify, or head to our website so you can listen to our episodes uninterrupted. And we walked out the jungle, I'd just been crowned king. I was on an absolute high. Had the crown on still. And she just said to me, So do you feel enough? And I just burst out into tears. I was put in a situation where financially I had to take my mum's house for her and put my sister through university and I'm like, I'm not a dad yet. I'm 17 years old. This is How it's meant to be. It's not meant to be easy. If something's hard, it means it's right. Just always think that something good is always around the corner. It will

Happen for you. That is the King of the Jungle, McFlies, Danny Jones, the recent winner of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of here, who joins us on today's episode of High Performance. I'm Jay Comfrey. Alongside me is Damien Hughes, and between us we love to explore the mindsets, the ideas, the experiences. behind the world's greatest high performers. And Danny is someone who had his first number one album at just eighteen years of age when McFly released Room on the Third Floor. They became the youngest ever band to have a number one album. Stealing the record from the Beatles, of all people. Since then, he's performed all over the world. He's released loads more music with the band, as well as becoming a solo artist, as well as that people love him on the television, whether it's the voice, which he's won, the masked sing, which he's won, master chef, where he was the runner up, or I'm a celebrity, get me out of here, which as you know, he was a winner and he's a serial winner, Damien.

He is, but this isn't about Danny's achievements, significant as they are. While he was in the Australian jungle. He began to open up to his fellow contestants about the anxiety that he's lived with for years, which started when his parents split up at the same time as his career began to go stratospheric. This is a conversation about the scars that are left behind from trauma and how when they're left untreated These can deepen.

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