Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

Ant eventually returned to performing performing as a guest on the NBC' show Motown 25: Yesterday Today Forever joined onstage by Diana Ross. " His father Leslie Goddard worked as a chauffeur and his mother Betty Kathleen Smith was a domestic cleaner briefly working for Paul McCartney. On Thursday 21 October Ant performed at the Union Chapel London.

He has also worked as an actor appearing in over two dozen films and television episodes from 1985 to 2003. Since 2010 Ant has undertaken an intensive reactivation of his musical career performing live regularly in his hometown of London and beyond recording and releasing a new album and with three full-length UK national tours a US national tour and a short Australian tour all now completed.