SUZIE McGuire can’t contain her delight when she talks about the change in her life.

The former Radio Clyde presenter is set to tread the boards for the very first time, starring in a new comedy revue show, Mum’s The Word (2).

The stage show is a follow-on from the hit comedy which revealed hilarious tales of mums and kids. Now it’s about mums and teenagers.

“It’s such a fantastic opportunity for me,” says the Prestwick-born mum-of-four, who will be working alongside Gail Porter, Julie Wilson Nimmo, Libby McArthur and Lorraine McIntosh.

“When I met up with the other girls we all seemed to get on so well. And I’m sure I can bring a bit of the experience I have with my own kids to the King’s Theatre.”

Not all of Suzie’s life experience in recent years has been the sort she’d want to take to the stage.

Exactly a year ago, her husband Derek Mitchell was found guilty of a string of domestic abuse assaults.

And here had been previous Man Trouble. The lady from Prestwick endured the collapse of a relationship with the father of her two older kids, and a broken first marriage.

You have to admit, Suzie. If there were a competition to find Scotland’s Ideal Man, you wouldn’t make the judging panel?

“I guess that’s true,” she says, with a contained smile. “I should have noticed when the temper flare-ups began from Derek, and the strategy he used in cutting me off from friends and family. But the loss of confidence was gradual. Before you know it you are being told you are fat and ugly and not funny on the radio.

“When you hear that often enough your natural confidence crashes. But I had a baby and was pregnant. I tried to make it work. And at the same time you’re continually being told you’re the love of his life.”

Suzie, who lives in Eaglesham, reveals she had been a lost soul since she was a teenager.

“I’ve never told anyone this but aged fifteen I began to look at religion for the answers in life. And I found it in the Bible. Although my parents were Protestant/Catholic I became a Jehovah’s Witness, which meant no drink and no sex.

“You weren’t allowed to go out with a boy without a chaperone. As a result, I married at nineteen, largely so’s I could have a love life I guess.

“It’s no surprise the marriage lasted three months.”

She adds; “He ran off with my best friend. And I moved back in with my mum.”

Meantime, the teenager who’d grown up with the dream of becoming a broadcaster, was building radio audiences with WestSound in Ayr.

Suzie Milligan then married a Jehovah’s Witness, John McGuire in 2007 but the couple split a year after two years.

“I was a media girl, but living like an Amish. And this continued right through the early years in radio. I never had a birthday celebration, no Christmases, nothing. I couldn’t even do Happy Christmas requests when I moved to Radio Clyde. I was walking a tightrope every day.”

“At this time I knew the religion wasn’t for me. It had been a great comfort, but it was too extreme.

“And I went straight into the Glasgow nightclub scene, hosting party nights, the lot. I was having fun for the first time in my life. I just went a bit too far.”

But why did she feel she needed religion in the first place?

“I was thirteen when my dad left us. I never saw him again. My mother, Sheila, was great at looking after me, and I love her dearly.

“But I guess I really missed my dad. From that time on I was always looking for the love that was missing.”

In 2005, Suzie she received a call from a Rosshire hospital.

Her father was dying with cancer and wanted to see her. Suzie raced to the bedside, and saw this skeletal figure. She was too late. “I cried and I squeezed his hand. Hard. It was all I could do.”

Her eyes mist over; “All those years apart and I was minutes away from seeing him alive.”

Meantime she met Gregg Ross and they had two kids together but that relationship didn’t work out.

“Women who are rejected by their fathers often go on to develop relationship problems. I think not getting the love of your dad does affect a wee girl, it leaves you with a lack of self-worth, you have to work harder to get other people’s love.”

But what about the old life, the celebrity friends? There was a time when McGuire and Michelle Mone were bosom buddies. Was the bra queen a great supporter in times of trouble?

“These days the phone doesn’t ring the way it once did, she says, diplomatically.

“And that’s fine. I’m happy now and I’ve got my mum and the kids.”

And her new partner Kevin, who lives with her in the old ‘creaky’ house. At forty-five she says she doesn’t need to have a man in her life. It just so happens she’s found a very nice one.

The Suzie McGuire happy story doesn’t end there.

“I only told the story of my dad dying to just a few people, but more recently I went with some friends to see a medium, just for the fun of it. And as we were chatting the medium said to me ‘I’ve just had a message from your dad.’

“Now, I don’t believe in the spirit world and I looked at her dismissively, but then she said something that floored me. ‘He just wants to say he felt you squeezing his hand ... and he loves you.’ And when I heard that I didn’t feel lost anymore at all.”

• Mum’s The Word 2, From Toddlers To Teenagers, The King’s Theatre, January 26 - 20