Joey Don Essex is an English television personality. From 2011 to 2013, he appeared on the ITV reality series The Only Way Is Essex. In 2013 he participated in the first series of Splash! and the thirteenth series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, where he finished in fourth place.
Meet Joey Essex’s Mother
Joey Essex’s mum Tina took her own life in 2001 after a battle with depression when Joey was 10 and his sister Frankie was 13. The 32-year-old took to Instagram on March 2022, to share a childhood snap of himself lying next to his beloved mum.
He captioned the image: “It doesn’t get easier, but I do this all for you. I got nothing to prove to anyone but your mum. “I’ll keep trying to make you proud.
The reality star says he still struggles because he never processed the death of his mother in 2001, which came after a battle with depression.
He briefly opened up while taking part in Celebrity SAS Who Dares Wins in 2020 about her death