HEARTBROKEN TV presenter Zoe Ball has spoken about the last moment she shared with her boyfriend before he took his own life.

The 47-year-old’s late partner, Billy Yates, died in May last year following a long battle with depression.

Ms Ball, who lives in Ditchling, said: “It was just that moment and that feeling of ‘oh my God I love him so much, we’ll find some help and it will all be OK’.

“And I wish I’d told him that.”

Ms Ball said she had tried very hard to help him overcome his depression.

She said: “I just thought, whatever it is we have to do, I love him so much we will get through this somehow.

“He got on his bike and he cycled off and he turned round and he blew me a kiss goodbye, and that was the last time I saw him.

“And I feel really grateful that I got my goodbye in a way. And I think that was my goodbye.”

Ms Ball has just taken on a gruelling 350-mile cycle ride from her hometown Blackpool to Brighton Palace Pier for Sport Relief.

Loyal fans braved through the wet and windy conditions as they waited for her to cross the finishing line.

She raised more than £500,000 to help raise awareness about mental health across the UK.

Throughout her journey, she was greeted by devoted supporters and some shared their personal stories of battling with mental illness.

She said: “’It’s so hard to comprehend what depression or a mental illness feels like if you haven’t suffered.

“It’s that thing that maybe I was so busy trying to find a solution, or find a therapist, or look for help here, or ‘let’s do this’ when perhaps maybe the most powerful thing I could have done is to sit and listen.”

She said her cycling challenge was a way for her to do something to help others fight mental illness.

She admitted she was still haunted by thoughts aboutwhy she could not do anything to help Mr Yates.

Ms Ball said: “I had taken on the challenge because I felt compelled to do something positive in my boyfriend’s memory after he died last year following a long struggle with depression.

“But before I even started tackling big hills, cross winds, the embarrassment of many falls and days of soreness in areas better left unmentioned, I went on a different journey to find some hope to share with the people around the country who are impacted by mental health battles.”

The ride was filmed for her documentary, Zoe Ball’s Hardest Way Home, which was aired yesterday on BBC1.