The 29-year-old Big Brother star, who spent a whopping $100,000 on alcohol and drank two pitchers of cider a night, reveals how she overcame her crippling alcohol addiction: “I was always known as the queen of drunks.”
A Big Brother star has revealed that he threw away more than $100,000 worth of alcohol over ten years before he overcame his crippling alcohol addiction.
Jules Rangiheuea, who entered the Big Brother house as a ‘trespasser’ last year, says she was spending more than $200 a week on alcohol since she was 18 before running dry in early 2023.
The 29-year-old podcaster shares the challenges of her newfound sobriety on her own TikTok account: Party girl on the mend.
His inspiring stories have attracted more than 198,000 likes and 9.3 thousand followers.
“I’ve always been known as the party girl and the party queen,” Jules explained in an interview with News.com.au.
Big Brother star Jules Rangiheuea threw away more than $100,000 worth of alcohol over ten years before overcoming his crippling alcohol addiction.
The 29-year-old podcaster, who entered the Big Brother house as a ‘trespasser’ last year, says she was spending more than $200 a week on alcohol since she was 18 before drying up in early 2023.
The 29-year-old podcaster shares the challenges of her newfound sobriety on her own TikTok account: Recovering Party Girl. In the photo: Jules in Big Brother 2022
I was celebrated for these qualities, it became my entire personality. I’d even have strangers come up to me and say, “I heard you’re having a great time in the p**s.”
“Honestly, it got to a point where I felt like this was all he was known for…I didn’t even know if I knew who he was without the alcohol.”
Jules said drinking was part of the culture growing up in Perth, which she describes as a “party seaside town”.
She said the lifestyle “normalized” heavy drinking, including partying midweek followed by “drinking all weekend.”
Jules said her alcohol intake typically consisted of up to two pints of cider at dinner on weekdays.
Heavy drinking led the social media star into a period of intense anxiety after suffering frequent hangovers.
Jules said her alcohol intake typically consisted of up to two pitchers of cider with dinner on a weekday.
Heavy drinking led the social media star into a period of intense anxiety after suffering frequent hangovers.
He would spend whole days in bed trying to recover from the excessive partying.
Sober since the start of the New Year, Jules said sobriety has been a big challenge, but giving up alcohol has made her happy.
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