Christine Lampard outlined how Frank Lampard could ‘be angry with himself’ and struggle with dealing with the ‘pressures’ of being in the spotlight, resulting in him acting in a different way at home

Christine Lampard started dating Frank in 2009, and saw how how his high-pressure career impacted him(Image: LOOSE WOMEN: THE PODCAST)

Christine Lampard has opened up about the private issues her husband has faced during his long career. Footie star Frank Lampard has always seemed cheery, but she revealed that it could be different behind the scenes.

This Morning star Christine, 46, started dating Frank in 2009, when he was at Chelsea FC while also playing for the England team, before tying the knot in 2015.

Frank, 46, has an incredible football record, even being Chelsea’s highest goal scorer of all time. Speaking on Loose Women: The Podcast this week, Christine admitted that living up to his own name brought plenty of pressure on Frank’s shoulders.

“I remember often when he was playing, and the pressures of, you know, doing a job where there’s millions of people watching you…” she recalled to Nadia Sawalha.

Christine told Nadia Sawalha that Frank struggled with ‘the entire country pointing at him’ while playing for Chelsea and England(Image: LOOSE WOMEN: THE PODCAST)

“I think it was even pre-he and I getting together, and there were a couple of moments obviously where it didn’t go according to plan, when you’re playing for your country and you’ve got the entire country pointing at you afterwards.

The One Show star continued: “I mean those sorts of things, and it’s interesting recently with Gareth Southgate talking about groups of men coming together and being supportive of one another and everything else, it really resonated with me…

“Because Frank had been through the football thing and the need for feeling like you’ve got a team, a tribe, a group of people around you that will support you when you’re you’re kind of having moments of feeling, ‘Oh, I should be strong, but I’m just not feeling it today. But how do I really tell everybody because they’ll never understand?’ So yeah, that was something I would always have been very aware of with him.”

Christine then revealed that Frank would take personal or team losses to heart, impacting his social life and mood even while off the pitch.

The star admitted that Frank would ‘cancel’ dinners or drinks with her as he needed to ‘decompress’ from his anger if things went wrong for him or his team(Image: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

“He used to cancel nights out when Chelsea didn’t win, when he was playing with them. We would maybe have plans to go for dinner or drinks or something and he’d go ‘I’m not going. I just don’t want to go. I don’t want to go,’ and there’d be anger and he just doesn’t want to talk to anybody about it,” she said.

Christine added: “It was like he needed to kind-of decompress, and then he was ready to go again Monday morning. But there were loads of those moments where he thought, ‘No, no, no,’ and he’d be so angry with himself if something didn’t go according to plan.”

Frank retired from playing in 2017, returning briefly to manage the club in 2019. He signed on as manager of Coventry City in November 2024, and juggles that alongside TV jobs and raising his family.

Christine and Frank parent his two daughters from a previous relationship with model Elen Rivas, and also welcomed a daughter in 2018 and a son three years later.