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Lily Allen opens up about secret battle with alcohol

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Singer Lily Allen has revealed that there was a time she struggled with alcohol addiction where she would end up drinking a bottle of vodka every day.

The 33-year-old musician said her addiction came close at the heels of her youngest child, Marnie's birth as she was trying to get back in shape.

"I was drinking a bottle of Grey Goose (vodka) a day. Part of it was I was really heavy after I gave birth to Marnie, my youngest, and I lost a lot of weight.

"I was down to 8st from 14. I was trying to meet the beauty standards and wasn't eating and I felt very insecure about the way I looked," Allen told GQ magazine.

 

She says there was a time during her Sheezus tour in 2014 that she found it difficult to tell the difference between hard liquor and still water.

The singer also blamed her boozing on the trauma of splitting from her husband, Sam Cooper.

"I lost my house and my kids started to feel distant and I broke up with my husband," she says.

Allen completed six months of sobriety and also attended 90 dependency meetings.

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First Published: May 20 2018 | 3:15 PM IST

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