“Please don’t think bad of me. I’m a human being who made one mistake, one that many many people have done themselves and not lost everything for. Again, I have to pick those pieces up.”
Madley has also discussed a damaging social media rumour surrounding a video of himself and a dog, which does not exist, which led to him requiring police protection due to the severity of the claims.
Madley wrote: “Rumours began to appear on Twitter that the reason I left is because I had been filmed having sex with a dog.
“I have to say I found this hilarious to begin with that people would somehow arrive at that conclusion.