News - Dannii Minogue broke down twice during an emotional interview with Piers Morgan, on his 'Life Stories' series - to be broadcast on ITV1 this Saturday evening.

Dannii became emotional whilst recalling the pain of her broken marriage and Kylie's battle with breast cancer in an exclusive interview with 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'America's Got Talent' judge Piers Morgan. She says, "You just go to another depth. You find strength within yourself that you never knew you had because you never needed it before."
Speaking of her two year marriage to former Home And Away co-star, and Nip/Tuck actor Julian McMahon, Dannii blames herself for the marriage failure, despite there not being one reason for the split: "It was just a lot of things and we're very, very different people, but I just feel like a failure with it and I hate that. I just thought, how could I be so stupid in every respect? How could I have not seen this coming, with the marriage not working out? Everyone else could see it, how could I let everything turn into this?"

But the biggest challenge that she faced in her personal life was dealing with sister Kylie's fight against cancer, which was diagnosed in May 2005.

"All I wanted to do was get inside the door of the family home and see my gorgeous sister and hug her," Dannii says, "and it was like trying to get through all of these barriers and it took a long while to understand all of that was there because everybody loves Kylie and they just wanted to know, Is she ok? But as a family member, it made everything more difficult." She now lnogs for the day that Kylie gets the all-clear. "The proper one is the five-year all-clear and we're not there yet. She's been so strong. In my head it's not going to come back, that's just not going to happen."

Dannii, who turned 38 last week, also spoke for the first time about why she decided to pose for Australian Playboy. After her marriage breakdown, Dannii faced huge debts, but she was too ashamed to ask her sister to bail her out. "My parents didn't want me to do it. My dad was saying, 'Doing this is forever - you can never, ever change it'. Kylie knew why I was doing it. I could have asked her for the money, but it wasn't in my nature."

It wasn't a situation that Dannii had planned to be in: "I never wanted to admit the trouble I was in. I should have been looking at my finances." But the move paid off. "The magazine was the biggest selling title they had ever had and they had to reprint," says Dannii. However, it came at a personal price. "I would never disclose how much - but it had to be a lot to look at my parents' faces and see the anguish in my dad's eyes."

"I don't regret it, but I feel relieved that people know why I did it - it's a huge weight off my shoulders," she told Piers, 44. "It was actually fun and I did feel liberated. I looked at the pictures and thought, I look all right! My girlfriends went out to buy it and told me I looked beautiful. It then felt like a celebration of me."

Dannii, who is now dating former Leeds Rhinos rugby league player Kris Smith, 31, has said that her first marriage in 1994 left her wary of getting married again. "I felt kind of uncomfortable and scared that I did not want to get myself into that same situation. It wasn't about not trusting others - I didn't trust me. I didn't trust my instincts any more."

Despite ruling out having children in the past, Dannii admits that it is now a possibilty. "I was brought up around children so I'm really keen to have children but the answer I get is, 'Well, if you can go through the nine months and you can have the babies then, yes, I'm in.' I mean, how hard can it be?"

When asked if she would walk down the aisle with Kris, who is now a model, Dannii told Piers: "I don't know, I guess he'd have to ask me. And I'd want him to be the first person to hear the answer - not you, Piers."

You can see the full interview, 'Life Stories: Dannii Minogue', Saturday 31st October on ITV1 at 9:45pm.

Dannii also appears on The X Factor, prior to the interview, Saturday 31st October on ITV1 at 8pm.