Martin Lewis choked up as he recounted the loss of his mother and the heartbreaking moment his stepmum took down their family pictures in an emotional This Morning debate on Tuesday.

The 52-year-old opened up about his life growing up during a discussion about blended families on the ITV show.

Martin lost his mum Susan when he was just 11 years old after she was killed by a lorry while out horse riding with his sister.

The money-saving expert gave his thoughts and shared his own experience being part of a blended family with Alison Hammond, Dermot O’Leary, Nick Ferrari and Ashley James.

Martin said: ‘My step mother joined us in 1986 when I was 14. The stereotype wasn’t the issue. The issue was I was having a step-mother joining me when I was still in terrible grief at the loss of my mother.

‘My stepmother did everything right, but there is nothing she could have done that would have made me want her to be there because of the reason she was there and the great difficulties.

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Martin Lewis chokes up recounting the loss of his mother and the heartbreaking moment his stepmum took down their family pictures in emotional This Morning debate

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The money saving expert gave his thoughts and shared his own experience being part of a blended family with Alison Hammond , Dermot O’Leary , Nick Ferrari and Ashley James

‘I remember when she took down some of our family photos. It was very difficult.

‘As an adult I understand it. As a 14-year-old child, it was tough.

‘I get on well with my step mum, she’s still in my life. I have a wonderful little half sister.

‘It’s all fantastic. But I think within this conversation…’

Martin then began to choke up a little and continued: ‘I find this difficult so, the thing that is slightly frustrating is all this talk is about the step mother.

‘There are children involved.  You have step parents on both sides, we were one family. We were with my dad because we lost my mum, it was very hard for my step mother, but it was very hard to have a step mother too with a 14 year old suffering post traumatic stress and grief.

‘My step mother did the best job that she could and we get on very well now, but I didn’t want her there and I didn’t like her being there.

‘I think that’s perfectly understandable at the time.’

Martin doesn’t usually speak about the death of his mother, but he broke down in tears as he spoke about his late mother on Good Morning Britain in 2022.

The money guru admitted he was triggered after watching footage of Prince Harry’s procession behind his mother Diana’s coffin during her funeral in 1997.

Revealing that his mother died just three days before he turned 12, Martin compared his own grief to that of Harry’s, whose mum Princess Diana was killed in a Paris car crash in 1997.

Martin’s mother Susan Lewis was killed by a lorry while out horse riding with his sister, and the money-saving expert struggled to hide his grief while discussing the upcoming procession for Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8 2022.

He said: ‘I wasn’t going to say this on air but it resonates with me very powerfully for someone who lost his mother at the same age as Harry in a road traffic accident.

‘I find it very difficult to watch. Thank goodness I wasn’t made to walk behind. I didn’t even go. It does bring back some…’

Back in 2020 Martin also recalled how he didn’t leave his house for six years after losing his mum.

Speaking on BBC Four’s Desert Island Discs, he said: ‘My mum was there one day and she wasn’t the next and that was it.

‘This was 1984 and you didn’t have counselling. My childhood ended that day and I am still not over it.’

He added: ‘I never left the house, couldn’t leave the house.

‘Because I wasn’t at home when it happened to my mum and I couldn’t cope with the thought of leaving the house because something else could happen.’

The money guru, who is Jewish, told how he would pretend to be busy with religious events to avoid socialising with his peers outside of school.

‘It was very difficult because when all my friends from school were going to parties and meeting girls and things like that, which I’d have liked to do, I couldn’t cope with it.’

He added: ‘It was a complete lie, I was a little boy. I was a little boy struggling to deal with something that nobody should be dealing with at that age.’

Martin first spoke out about the loss of his mum in support of charity Grief Encounter on Radio 5 Live in 2018.

He said: ‘I was told there had been an accident involving a lorry but no one told me how serious it was.

‘I remember worrying that my mum wouldn’t be there for my birthday.

‘The next day my dad told me that she died that morning and that was the end of my childhood, that moment.’