It was against the historic splendour of Greenwich Park, home of mean time, that British rider Charlotte Dujardin seemed to stop the clocks during It was her second win of the Games – her individual triumph followed gold in the team event, the first British medal in dressage for a century – and Dujardin, now 32, would go on to dominate every title in the dressage world’s Grand Slam as well as successfully defending her individual title at Rio.She is now Britain’s most successful Olympic equestrian and her ‘once-in-a-lifetime horse’, a dark bay with a big canter called Valegro, is just as much of a superstar.Yet today she reveals the toll that success took on her mental health and her home life. Far from revelling in her achievements, the ‘girl on the dancing horse’, as she was nicknamed, says she sank into a deep Pictured: Charlotte Dujardin, showing off her medal haul, with Dean Golding and her horse Valegro, says she sank into a deep depression in the months after the London GamesIt is an episode she touches on in her new memoir, but today she goes much further in describing the months of emotional torment she endured.‘Depression was not something I’d ever really understood,’ she says. But that is how I felt back then.’Today it’s hard to reconcile Dujardin, elegantly athletic even bundled into a huge fleece in last week’s sub-zero temperatures, with the damaged woman she describes.For a few hushed minutes the nation watched as the near unknown made an audacious bid for Olympic gold with a witty dressage performance to Land Of Hope And Glory at London 2012 Her dark hair is pulled back in a glossy ponytail and her fingers, damaged by early arthritis from years of holding reins, sport surprisingly long nails with an immaculate French manicure.She is brimming with confidence, happy to be candid about her struggles and, most tellingly, wears two engagement rings, both from Dean, with whom she joyfully reconciled after three months apart.The one on her right hand he gave her when he first proposed, the second – a large diamond solitaire from his native South Africa he bought more recently– has pride of place on her left.Dujardin has been riding since she was two but only made her debut in the rarified world of international dressage in 2011 – making her 2012 double Olympic triumph even more startling. ‘But it got to the point where I was thinking about harming myself because I had no idea what to do next. I felt I had let him down. 2016 Olympic Games – Gold Medal Team and Individual Gold ~ scores as high as 93%; 2015 European Dressage Championships ~ Individual Gold and Silver Medal Team; 2015 World Cup Final ~ Individual Gold Medal ; 2014 World Equestrian Games ~ … ‘At that point they meant nothing to me because I was losing so much more. Californian revealed to be a frontrunner - but Florida Democrats warn she praised Fidel Castro as 'Jefe' James Murdoch QUITS from board of News Corp: Rupert Murdoch's son blames 'disagreements over certain editorial content published by the company's news outlets' in terse resignation letterIs YOUR hair falling out in clumps? (‘I have fat genes,’ she jokes about her love of bread and cake.) She won’t be riding into the field where she plans to wed on the horse, though.‘What, side saddle? Everyone was saying, “Oh my God, Charlotte, you look really skinny. God forbid if I missed that chance, that would be really sad.‘I am 33 in July and I want at least two so I have to get going. I do not deprive myself of anything but I try to eat a good breakfast, a slice of wholemeal toast with a scrambled egg and spinach, then a wrap for lunch, and a nice dinner, something healthy, lots of vegetables. It was the biggest reality check of my life. But we won’t because I think about him and our life.’In fact, their relationship became one of the highlights of the Rio Games in 2016 when Golding pinned a handmade sign saying ‘Can we get married now?’ to his T-shirt while his fiancee celebrated her successful defence of her individual gold. It felt like a lot but it did not scare me, it made me feel better about myself. If ever we get to that point again we can talk about it. Carl Hester Does The Double As Valegro Retires In Style, Dec. 15, 2016 ’Instead she ‘cried buckets’ alone at home and turned to the one thing she knew would help restore her emotional equilibrium: riding. Valegro, whose stable name is Blueberry, is worth an estimated £6m, according to Horse & Hound, so he needn’t worry about running out of snacks. Owner: Carl Hester and Rowena Luard | Breeder: J.L. We are no longer accepting comments on this article.Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media GroupEllen DeGeneres is telling show executives she's had enough and is ready to call it quits as staffers slam her apology and claim she's the problem as star hides away and her wife Portia DeRossi walks their dogsWomen who underwent the first face transplant in the U.S. in 2008 after her husband blasted her with a shotgun in a failed murder-suicide has died at the age of 57'Archie has not been in public since the family arrived here.'
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