‘Never shared this before': Star posts shock video crying and shaking

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Tammy Hembrow has shared a deeply personal video montage revealing the emotional turmoil she experienced during her marriage to Matt Zukowski – further fuelling speculation about the real story behind their recent split.
The 31-year-old fitness mogul, who has been at the centre of a fresh media storm after her high-profile date with AFL star Bailey Smith, took to Instagram on Saturday morning with a vulnerable post.
The clip shows Hembrow crying, shaking and breaking down, with her wedding rings clearly visible in many of the clips, confirming these were filmed while she was still in her marriage.
The clip opens with text that says: 'It felt like the heaviness would never end,' and shows the mum-of-three trembling mid-breakdown, even crying uncontrollably while brushing her hair.
The montage then takes an uplifting turn, with the final clips showing Hembrow smiling and laughing with her friends and family, on holidays, and by the beach.
'But then I noticed the light creeping back in,' the text on screen says.
The emotional clip was set to The Cinematic Orchestra's 'To Build A Home'.
She paired the video, which amassed 2.5 million views in three hours, with a long message to her followers.
'I made this so long ago and honestly never thought I'd share it. Watching it back makes me genuinely feel ill. But with everything happening right now, if there was ever a time to share it … it's now,' the Saski activewear founder said.
'I'm posting this for the person who feels like they're drowning the way I once did. The person who can't see a way forward. I want you to know, it does get better. I PROMISE you.
'Some traumas shake you so deeply, they change the way you see literally everything. The world, the people around you … and even yourself. But little by little, the light comes back.
'No one else knows your whole story. No one has felt what you've felt, seen what you've seen, or carried what you've carried. This is your life, your journey … but you are not alone in it.
'One day you'll look back and realise you survived what you thought would break you.'
The post was instantly flooded with messages of support.
'You've come a long way,' one of her friends, Olivia Phillips, said.
Then her sister, Amy, wrote, 'My heart was breaking for you during this time'.
Hembrow later took to her Stories to shed some light on why she posted the clip.
'It feels so weird posting that video,' she said. 'But when I was going through that, seeing videos like that helped me so much, so if I can do that for one person, that's all I want.'
She then hit back at some commenters who questioned why she filmed videos of herself crying.
'I don't usually film myself crying mid-breakdown, most of those videos I was talking in them and sending to my sister,' she explained.
Hembrow's candid post came just days after she was spotted with Bailey Smith at a lunch date in the Gold Coast, with their not-so-discreet outing taking social media by storm.
The high-profile date, which was two months after her divorce from Zukowski, led to a range of backlash online, from people who shamed her for moving on 'so quickly'.
A community football coach was even sacked yesterday after making a crude social media remark about the situation.
The Harvey Brunswick Leschenault Football Club confirmed on Friday that coach John Baggetta had been terminated after he posted an offensive slur to Facebook, where he referred to Hembrow as a 'c** bucket'.
The full comment read: 'He's trying to keep his relevance and she's a c** bucket'.
Meanwhile, Zukowski, who was married to Hembrow for seven months, released a podcast episode yesterday, speaking about their divorce and saying it 'sucked' seeing his ex move on with someone else.
He even claimed that he was the one to end the relationship, saying 'I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I decided to leave a relationship that I found was not right for me. It was unhealthy for me. And I made the decision for my mental health to leave'.
Now, Hembrow's video seems to have gone live in direct response to Zukowski's bold claims, where he presented himself as the one who was unhappy in the marriage.
Hembrow's unfiltered video showing her side of the story, and at her lowest, appears as her attempt to offer insight into her reality during the marriage.
Other than this clip, Hembrow has seemingly been handling the media frenzy this week quite lightly, posting TikToks calling her haters 'boring' and even cheekily wearing Smith's jacket in one of them.