Michelle Heaton has reflected on the moment she “accepted her life was over” during the bouts of her alcohol addiction.
The Liberty X singer, 45, has been sober for three and a half years after nearly dying and being hospitalized in 2021 during her battle with drink and drugs.
Michelle uploaded a touching Instagram post on Thursday to mark World Mental Health Day, where she opened up about how she managed to seek help when she was in a “dark, horrible, tortured place.”
Sharing a photo of herself crying, Michelle, who drank two bottles of wine and a bottle of vodka a night almost every day for three years, revealed that it was at that moment that she recognized that if she didn’t change, she would die. .
She wrote: ‘Today is World Mental Health Day. Unfortunately I have hundreds of photos like this. Never shown, never seen, during a long battle with addiction and trauma.
Michelle Heaton has reflected on the moment she “accepted her life was over” during the bouts of her alcohol addiction.
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‘I will continue to share my story because it is important. It matters because there will always be someone suffering like me. Someone who can’t ask for help…yet
‘Someone who can’t stop drinking or doing drugs… yet.
‘Someone who has lost people they loved.
‘Someone who can’t see the way out of that dark, horrible, tortured place.
‘In this photo, in my eyes, I can see that I gave up. I had accepted that my life was over and if I continued I would surely die. I had a moment, a small pause in which I asked for help.
‘The help was there, I couldn’t see it or accept it until that moment. Three and a half years later, I just want those who are suffering to have that moment to themselves.
‘There is a solution, you can get it back. It is possible to live a life without fear or misery… I promise.
‘For more information about addictions visit www.aa.org.’
Sharing a photo of herself crying, Michelle revealed that it was at that moment that she recognized that if she didn’t change, she would die.
Fans took to the comments section to praise Michelle for speaking out, calling her “inspiring.” Her friend Nicola McLean added: “You should be very proud.”
At the height of her battle, the singer was drinking two bottles of wine and a bottle of vodka “practically every day since 2018,” when an intervention forced her into rehab.
Family: Michelle married her husband Hugh in the Bahamas in July 2010, whom she began dating in 2008.
Fans took to the comments section to praise Michelle for speaking out, calling her “inspiring.”
Her friend Nicola McLean added: “You should be very proud.”
Michelle later revealed on her Instagram Stories that she would be flying to Edinburgh to give a talk on mental health.
At the height of her battle, the singer drank two bottles of wine and a bottle of vodka “practically every day since 2018,” when an intervention led by Katie Price led to her checking into rehab.
talking to the sunMichelle said: ‘What I was doing was a suicide mission. He was crying out for help when he couldn’t really ask for help. When you are addicted, you feel like there is no way out.
“I hit rock bottom with alcohol and was in excruciating pain. My doctor could feel my liver protruding because I was so thin.’
Michelle also told how she embarked on a “three-year cocaine binge” in which she consumed a gram of cocaine a night along with alcohol.
Speaking of his friends’ intervention, he said: “I was shaking and crying. I was intoxicated. Katie Price said: ‘Right, you’re going to The Priory.’
Katie was previously a patient at The Priory while battling her own demons.
Priory staff told the doting mother that the level of the enzyme GGT, which indicates liver damage, in her blood was 2.5000, compared to 30 in a healthy person.
Michelle has been married to Irish businessman Hugh Hanley since 2010 and the couple share two children, daughter Faith, 12, and son AJ, 10.
