Alex Reid has opened up about his split from Chantelle Houghton, and the fight that saw him arrested at their home.

The cage fighter revealed how his ex-fiancee had called the police after he returned home late at night and Chantelle refused to open the door, prompting him to kick it down.

"I texted Chantelle two hours beforehand to tell her I was coming home," he explained to Now magazine. "I rang the doorbell and knocked for five minutes. I called her, she didn't answer. So I sent her a text message saying, 'I will knock the door down'.

After she eventually picked up the phone, Chantelle failed to let him in. "Out of sheer frustration I booted the door. It just came off," he said.

"She came downstairs swearing at me and going crazy... She said: 'I'm going to call the police.'"

He continued: "I got a knock on my door. Chantelle was upstairs with Dolly and I purposely stayed downstairs. All of a sudden there were two policemen standing there. Then six more turned up and told me they were going to arrest me."

Days later, Chantelle announced she had split from Alex in a Twitter message reading: "Unfortunately I have had no option but to end my relationship with Alex".

However, Alex revealed that was the first he knew of her intentions to leave him.

"I got a call from my mum telling me Chantelle had ended things on Twitter. Why would you publicly break up with someone on Twitter? I was the last one to know. How could she do that?"

Despite their differences, Alex also admitted he wants to work things out with Chantelle, begging for her to seek help with him.

"Even now I'm positive. I'm willing to work at something and will never say die," he said.

"I've offered to go to counselling with her, but she's not interested. We both need help. Professional help."

Meanwhile, Chantelle has been speaking about her heartbreak in her New! magazine column, revealing she is still "very raw" from the split.

“It’s been a very difficult week, as I’m sure people will understand," she said.

"It’s only been a matter of days since we split so it’s still very raw and I’m really, really upset.

"I tried everything in my power to make my relationship work. I’ve been trying to keep myself busy with Dolly - after all, she is the most important one in all of this.”

The full interview with Alex Reid appears in this week's Now magazine, on sale now.

Chantelle's column is in New! magazine, also on sale now.

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