Peter Crouch leaves wife Abbey Clancy in hysterics after revealing he got more than he bargained for while visiting a Dubai water park: ‘It was like a colonic irrigation!’

Peter Crouch admits he got more than just sand between his toes during a recent trip to Dubai with his wife Abbey Clancy and their children.

The former Stoke City and England footballer, 43, visited Wild Wadi Waterpark while on holiday in the United Arab Emirates but was left traumatized by one of its many attractions.

“There is such a thing as the Lazy River, there’s nothing lazy about it, I’ll tell you that straight away,” he recalled during the latest edition of The Therapy Crouch podcast.

“So these jets take you from behind, straight up, right? But it’s like a colonic; you get a jet plane straight into your ring piece.”

The memory prompted hysterical laughter from Abbey, who agreed with the retired footballer’s assessment.

The former Stoke City and England footballer, 43, visited Wild Wadi Waterpark while on holiday in the United Arab Emirates but was left traumatized by one of its many attractions

Located next to the Burj Al Arab and Jumeirah Beach Hotels in Dubai, the Wild Wadi Waterpark includes three swimming pools, seventeen water slides and a variety of water rides and surfing machines.

Abbey has opened up about her battle with anxiety and revealed she uses hypnotherapy to cope because she ‘catastrophizes everything’.

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline about her new podcast venture, Exhibit A, the mother-of-four revealed she constantly worries ‘that she’s scaring her’.

Abbey admitted that her thoughts always go to the worst-case scenario, and in January she visited a doctor after simply wearing jeans that were too tight, causing her legs to go numb.

She worried and googled her symptoms, leading her to believe she had Multiple Sclerosis, which made her anxious.

According to the NHS, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a condition that can affect the brain and spinal cord and cause a wide range of possible symptoms, including problems with vision, arm or leg movements, sensation or balance.

But since the accident, Abbey, who was told she didn’t have MS, booked herself into a hypnotherapist who helped her with her anxiety and she said ‘it worked’.

She told MailOnline: ‘I really suffer from health anxiety, and the worst thing you can do is Google symptoms.

“It’s something I do all the time, and I’ve had to train myself out of it.

‘I sometimes scare myself with self-diagnosis, which I don’t recommend to anyone.

The memory prompted hysterical laughter from Abbey, who agreed with the retired footballer’s assessment

“But this is something I’ve been working on, and I’ve tried hypnotherapy for it, and it works. It functions.’

“To just change your thought process. I catastrophize everything. I’m just a big worryer.’

She added: ‘So I always assume the worst-case scenario and am not completely rational when it comes to… “Oh, could this be this, or this is going to happen.”

“It’s a terrible thing to have, but it’s something I deal with, and I’ve talked about it before on our podcast.”

Abbey explained that she believes the world is experiencing an “anxiety pandemic” and hopes to talk to doctors on Exhibit A to give people tools to get through everyday life and stress.

She revealed that hypnotherapy has changed her way of thinking, but admitted that the process takes practice.

She said: ‘I haven’t been diagnosed with it. I know the signals myself.

“It’s really just retraining your brain to think in a different way. And it works and it takes practice.

“It’s just simple things that you can change in your daily life and it helps with all that stuff.”