In the second half of his conversation with Dom, Freddie Woodward goes deep on the addiction he carried through his entire elite diving career — and for years afterwards.
From his first exposure to pornography as a child to daily use as a teenager, from six years of trying to quit and failing to the moment something finally changed — Freddie tells the full story. He talks about what it did to his relationships, his sense of self, and his ambitions. About the images that were leaked online at 22 and the eight years he spent running from the shame. About the identity shift that eventually made stopping feel different from every previous attempt.
Also in this episode: relationship and psychosexual therapist Olivia Luna on the impact compulsive pornography use has on couples, what she sees in her therapy room, and why secrecy — not the porn itself — is often where the real damage happens.
Plus the full version of Freddie's Torque Ten quickfire questions.
FIND FREDDIE
You can find Freddie on Instagram
@freddiewoodward.identity
@freddie_woodward
And on his Podcast
@divebeyondsportpod
Olivia Luna is a Relationship and Psychosexual Couple Therapist with practices in the heart of London.
She is the Founder of East London Relationship Therapy, based in Shoreditch, and Co-Founder of Central London Relationship Therapy, located in the Harley Street Medical District.
Alongside her clinical work, Olivia provides supervision to fellow practitioners and offers placements to trainee therapists.
Olivia Luna - East London Relationship Therapy
On Instagram
@e_l_r_t
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
00:28 Coming Up on This Episode
00:49 Trigger Warning
01:24 A Shoutout to Listeners in 14 Countries
01:57 The Addiction — First Memories and Early Exposure
04:28 How It Became a Daily Habit
05:29 The Reward System — Deserving It After Training
06:33 How It Changed the Way He Saw Women
08:00 Shame, Loss of Control, and the Productivity Cost
09:02 Novelty, Escalation, and the Infinite Scroll
14:04 When It Escalated — Sharing Images Online
15:46 The Leak — Images Going Public at 22
17:09 Eight Years of Shame and Buried Dreams
19:41 Identity Is the Fundamental Problem
21:23 The Statistics — 10% of UK Men, 60% of Under-18s
22:25 Six Years of Trying to Quit Alone and Failing
23:57 What Finally Worked — Reading, Psychology, Identity Shift
25:05 Why Willpower Alone Doesn't Work
26:07 The Relapse Cycle — How the Circuitry Reopens
29:55 The Most Taboo of the Common Addictions
31:23 Why It's Harder to Spot Than Other Addictions
35:00 The Wider Damage — Relationships, Objectification, Erectile Dysfunction
38:48 How Pressure Environments Create the Conditions for Addiction
41:18 Vulnerability as Strength — What Masculinity Actually Means
43:46 What Conversations Need to Happen
50:54 Torque Ten — Full Quickfire Questions with Freddie
56:43 How Compulsive Use Affects the Brain
58:54 What Couples Say
59:46 How Trust Gets Rebuilt
01:00:19 Shame and Secrecy — The Antidote
01:04:35 Dom's Takeaway — Destigmatising the Conversation
01:05:47 How to Find Freddie and Next Episode
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