Strictly Come Dancing star Michelle Visage has revealed her daughter's heartbreaking struggles with depression.

19 year-old Lillie had such bad depression that she was suicidal for a time.

The RuPaul's Drag Race judge, 50, also spoke about her daughter's sexuality.

She said to OK! magazine : "She likes girls but she prefers the name queer better than gay. We've both always known it.

"She dated a boy, and for a while identified as bisexual. Then she realised she thought boys were cute and she felt more sexually attracted to girls. "

On Lillie's mental health, Michelle divulged: "She had to deal with depression for so long that she lost a lot of her teenage years. I've told her I want her to date everything so she knows what she likes. she's really flourishing now."

Michelle added: "Lillie was suicidal for a while. But she's been three years on the other side now. "

Michelle also has 17 year-old Lola.

On how she helps her kids, she said: "I tend to take a holistic approach, so we tried everything before we realised we actually had to save her with medication and therapy.

"With mental health, children are always forgotten, people tell them to man up and quit complaining. Instagram feeds into that. Lillie was log out for a month and Lola's now come to a place where she realises her self worth. I've taught her to love herself."

Michelle's immensely proud that Lillie's a keen writer, and takes a great deal of pride in standing out from the crowd.

She said: "Lillie's going to be a writer. She loves writing period fiction - she's a weird kid, but I love weird.

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"She did a version of a TED Talk at uni about the pride she took in being different. I recorded the whole thing and was in tears.

"She was embracing who she was after battling the darkest demons a kid should battle.

"I'm weird too. That's why I champion the LGBTQIA+ community because they are the kids who were the misfits. They need people fighting the fight with them."

Michelle has faced serious struggles of her own, including living with Hashimoto's disease, a condition in which the immune system targets the thyroid gland.

She revealed: "My skin was crackly dry and my hair was falling out in clumps. I was also having hardcore panic attacks.

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"My journey goes back to me getting breast implants at the age of 21. My body couldn't fight off the attacker [which Michelle reckons were the attacker] because it was there 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

"After 30 years of having breast implants and 20 years of suffering with Hashimoto's, not one doctor told me what it could be.

"So I found a Facebook group where over 50,000 women who had the same symptoms from their breast implants and started a documentary on my journey with Breast Implant Illness, before getting them removed.

"Since having them removed, the thyroid nodule is going down, which is amazing."

The fear was that it was cancer - which Michelle was overwhelmingly relieved to learn it wasn't.

"It's not cancer, thank God. My thyroid has doubled in size over the past two years and my doctor told me I have to have a biopsy before I began Strictly.

"I got the report the day I was coming to England for Strictly and it was benign."

Michelle first found fame as a judge on the drag queen contest RuPaul's Drag Race, and now she's hopped across the pond for Strictly.

She's partnered with her pro dancer, the fabulously handsome Giovanni Pernice.

The pair are currently third on the leader board after Saturday's Strictly, which was the year's first live show. They have 30 points, only trailing behind Kelvin Fletcher and Oti Mabuse, and Karim Zeroual and Amy Dowden.