UPDATE: |Martin Lewis admits he ‘didn’t want stepmother there’ when dealing with ‘PTSD’ after mum’s death News

The money expert appeared on This Morning to discuss blended families

Martin Lewis has admitted that he ‘didn’t want his stepmother there’ when he was dealing with ‘PTSD’ after the death of his mum.

The money saving expert’s mum Susan Lewis passed away when he was just 14 following a horse riding collision with a lorry.

Martin touched viewers’ hearts back in September when he said her death is ‘just as raw 40 years later’, telling the public ‘even if you’re in grief grab happiness’.

Back on This Morning on Tuesday (April 15), Martin joined Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary for a discussion about blended families.

“My stepmother joined us in 1986… there was a stereotype. The stereotype wasn’t the issue. The issue was I had a stepmother joining me when I was still in terrible grief at the loss of my mother.

“My stepmother did everything right, but there is nothing she could have done that made me want her to be there because of the reason she was there.

“I remember when she took down some of our family photos, it was very difficult. As an adult I understand it.”

He continued: “As a 14-year-old child, it was tough. I get on well with my step mum now and she’s still in my life. I have a wonderful little half sister and it’s all fantastic.”

Saying the ‘thing that frustrates’ him is ‘all the talk is about the stepmother’ when discussing the topic, Martin said ‘there are children involved’.

He explained: “We were were one family, we were with my dad because we lost my mum. It was very hard for my stepmother and it was very hard to have a stepmother when suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and grief.

“She did the best she could and we get on very well now, but I didn’t want her there and I didn’t like her being there.

“The whole nuisance of ‘it should all be fine and we live in a wonderful world’, it was a different era then. I respect it’s the same for many children now and they have to get over grief.”

According to Martin, anyone who is considering entering a blended family should know that they’re ‘going to have to deal with some issues’ regardless of what the situation is.

“The evil stepmother stereotype is ridiculous, the concept you can just jump in and it’s all going to be fine in a blended family. It’s going to take work, compromise and dealing with things,” he said.