EXCLUSIVE: Miranda Hart is BACK! Britain’s much-loved comedian reveals ‘difficult challenges’ during an ‘unexpected decade in her life’ as she details how she got through the ‘darkness’ in her new candid memoir

Miranda Hart has revealed she has struggled through some difficult challenges in a ‘very unexpected decade’ of her life. The comedian rose to fame with her self-titled sitcom series in 2009 and went on to star in Call The Midwife as Chummy from 2012 until 2015.

However the star, now 51, didn’t return for the sixth series of the BBC drama after reports she was suffering from ill health. And after a decade out of the spotlight, Miranda is back to explain what really happened in her new memoir I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You.

Opening up to her followers on Instagram, she admitted she has now reached a place of joy and peace and is ‘physically recovered in a way she never thought possible’ after a period of ‘darkness’. In her new book, which is set for release on October 10, Miranda takes readers through the ‘treasures she learnt in the darkness’ in the latest chapter of her life and also hinted at sharing her own love story.

Taking to Instagram to make the announcement, she explained, in her true Miranda way: ‘Hello to you I have big news that I wish to impart. I’m very excited I have got a slightly sweaty upper lip due to the level of excitement and possibly a bit of reflux. ‘It is about my book. I can now tell you that my book is available to pre-order from all good bookstores on the 10th October. ‘It’s called I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You, what I intriguing title Miranda I hear you say, thank you very much!

‘I am honest in here about, well here’s what I will say, I’ve been through a very unexpected decade in my life and there have been surprising and incredible joys but also some really difficult equally surprising challenges. ‘All the test and trials I’ve been through are in here when you buy it… I am here I am in tact, I got through it.

‘So I am sharing the treasures that I learnt in darkness and the things that helped me to live and feel like I am free and joyful and peaceful and physically recovered in a way that I never thought possible. ‘So there you go there is always hope I suppose whatever you might be going through at this time. None of us go through life without some testing or trials do we.’