Lucy Beaumont feels 'guilty' after Jon Richardson split as she opens up on health disorder

The comedy star announced her split with Jon Richardson in a joint statement on Instagram in April

Comedian Lucy Beaumont has admitted she "sometimes feels guilty" following her split with Jon Richardson as she opened up on her health disorder.

In April, the 41-year-old announced in a joint statement on Instagram that the comedy couple would be divorcing after nine years of marriage. The couple have starred in Meet The Richardsons, in which they play “exaggerated versions of themselves”, since 2020.

Lucy, who won the BBC New Comedy award in 2012 and the Chortle award for best newcomer the following year, first met Jon at a comedy club at the Fighting Cocks pub in Kingston upon Thames in 2013.

After marrying in 2015, they quickly started doing interviews together, comedy shows, charity gigs, and last year hosted their own Channel 4 game show, Jon & Lucy's Odd Couples. However it was the fly-on-the-wall mockumentary Meet The Richardsons that brought Lucy new levels of fame.

In 2023 she was nominated for a Bafta TV award for her role and the show was named best comedy at the Broadcast Digital awards in 2022. Speaking to The Sunday Times, Lucy said that she "can't talk" about the ongoing divorce owing to lawyers' instructions but did admit feeling "guilty" about one aspect of their relationship.

She said: "I don't regret anything. But equally, [over] this next stage I am very much keeping my personal life personal. I sometimes feel guilty that I talked about my daughter and my marriage, and my mum and my dad.

"I think partly I was feeling grateful, grateful that I was getting the work, grateful that I was being interviewed, and feeling like I had to sacrifice and share everything."

During her career, Lucy has featured on a number of comedy panel shows including Would I Lie To You?, The Last Leg and Have I Got News For You. The couple share one daughter, whom they welcomed in 2016.

Lucy was diagnosed with ADHD two years ago and said it was "interesting being 40 and suddenly understanding a part of yourself when previously you've just thought you were a little bit unhinged."

She said: "It means your brain doesn't want you to organise things. For some reason, it doesn't want to make life easy for you. I'll get from A to B but I'll exhaust myself doing it. The brain chatter of just going for a cup of tea with a friend."

On the flip side she sees the world differently, which helps with comedy and being creative. "You can't get more neurodiverse than Basil Fawlty," she adds. "You're also in denial as well, and there's nothing funnier than being flawed."