**By Angela Mollard
The singer and TV presenter opens her heart over the end of her marriage.**
Week after week she has appeared on television flashing her trademark smile and encouraging the nervous Australian Idol contestants to draw on their confidence and courage.
But away from the cameras, Ricki-Lee Coulter’s heart has been breaking as her marriage to childhood sweetheart Jamie Babbington slowly disintegrated, culminating in their separation last week.
With her emotions still raw, Ricki-Lee reveals exclusively to Woman’s Day the extent of her pain since the split.
“I’m heartbroken and there’s days when I’ve sat on the floor of my bathroom in tears wondering how I’m going to deal with all this,” says the talented singer and TV presenter. “I started to fall out of love with him and I wasn’t happy in the end,” she says, fighting back tears. “But it was still hard for us to end it.”
Ricki-Lee, 22, says the demands of long-distance love and their desire for different things led her and Jamie to grow apart. “When we married a year ago, I felt so in love and a part of me still does love Jamie.”
For the full story, see this week’s Woman’s Day (on sale Oct 27).
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