The Script’s Danny O’Donoghue has credited therapy for helping to improve his relationship with his wife, Anais Niang.

The couple started dating in 2019 after meeting during the Covid-19 pandemic. The got engaged in 2024 before going on to tie the knot in Somerset in the UK in May 2025.

While chatting to Matt Willis on his podcast On The Mend, the singer urged listeners not to be afraid to try therapy.

‘Therapy is a godsend and a lifesaver,’ he told the host, explaining that he can find it harder to open up to friends and family who he has built up relationships with.

‘Sometimes men just want to be able to dump it and to leave it there.

‘I feel like my relationship with my wife is ten times better than it ever was because I’m able to basically pay this guy to listen to everything I’ve done that week that I feel like I’ve bottlenecked. ‘

Giving an example of what he means, he said: ‘I know what I did, she did something really nice for me, and then I nitpicked at something at the end of it, and I ruined the whole thing, and I was able to go away and get in like a man huddle with someone else and be like, “How do I sort this out? How do I then come back knowing the answers?”‘

During the episode, Danny also delved into his feelings of grief at the loss of his bandmate and longtime friend Mark Sheehan.

Three years on from his passing, Danny admits he feels ‘angry’ that Mark isn’t here anymore.

‘I’m in this weird reality where I’m like, the story was already harrowing, you know? What we both had to go through to get to where we were.’

‘And we were just about sitting on top of the mountain. Like we were both doing really well. He had three kids, a wife and a beautiful family, and I was in a great place.’

‘But for that to be whipped away, and we’re all just left here going “What was that?’

When his father died, Mark had been his rock, but when Mark passed, he didn’t have that anymore and found himself in a dark place where alcohol became his crutch.

‘I just really didn’t want to be here, I just didn’t want to be in this reality,’ he admitted.

He wanted to spend his first Christmas without Mark sober, but wound up drunk on the plane home, eventually deciding to give up alcohol on 27 December and has been sober ever since.