Spencer Matthews recalled how alcohol took over his life and threatened to end his relationship before he made the sudden decision to get sober.
During his years as a stockbroker in London and right up to his days on Made In Chelsea, the drink became a cornerstone of the TV star’s life.
But it was when he reached his mid-20s and met and married his wife Vogue Williams that alcohol became a problem.
Speaking in The Mail’s All I know came podcast, Spencer admitted: ‘tI was certain that I would lose Vogue if I continued drinking the way I did.’
Spencer Matthews recalled how alcohol took over his life and threatened to end his relationship with Vogue Williams before making the sudden decision to get sober (pictured in 2017).
Speaking on The Mail’s Everything I Know About Me podcast, Spencer admitted: “There was a certainty that I would lose Vogue if I kept drinking the way I did” (pictured together this year).
He recalled how in the early months of their romance, after meeting on the 2017 reality show The Jump, he and Vogue would party together, admitting that “we had a very social and quite drunk relationship.”
Alcohol even brought the couple, now parents of three, together as he admits he was perhaps the most dependent on alcohol at the time they met on the show. ‘“I think anyone who has been on The Jump will tell you that it was something extraordinary,” he explained.
‘Even though I was sober when I got to the final for 10 days before the final, I just went and won!’
“When I won, I went into a kind of mental turmoil and lost everything. Then I was starting to feel like I was a real disaster. And that was a little unusual for me.”
However, Spencer explained that while Vogue was “drinking heavily every few days and drinking to get drunk,” he continued “and it was every day.”
Vogue then became pregnant with her eldest son, Theodore. ‘METERHer alcohol consumption was accentuated by the fact that she did not drink.
“There was a general level of disappointment in her about me. Which seemed like shit to me, because I always wanted people close to me to be proud of me,” she added.
After The Jump, Spencer struggled to find more work, while his wife’s career flourished. ‘I was starting to feel like a real loser. I would do great things and travel while I was pregnant, get these TV jobs and host these documentaries. And I’d be home.’
Spencer went crazy after winning the reality show The Jump in 2017, the show where he met Vogue.
He recalled how in the early months of their romance, he and Vogue would party together, admitting that “we had a very social and quite drunk relationship” (pictured in 2017).
Spencer’s turning point came after a drunken night in 2017, after drinking most of a bottle of whiskey at the London home she shared with Vogue.
When he drunkenly slept with Vogue, who was pregnant, he remembers how she told him she was going to leave him. “She didn’t really believe me, nor did anyone else,” he admitted, but “I didn’t drink for three and a half years, I just stopped drinking.”
And just to emphasize his turning point, the next morning he signed up for his first ultramarathon: running six and a half marathons in five days in the Sahara Desert. explaining, “I did it to punish myself for the wasted years.”
Spencer launched her low-alcohol beverage company, The Clean Liquor Company, in 2019.
His next challenge is to try to break a world record, and this week he announced that he plans to run “the most consecutive marathons on sand”: thirty marathons in thirty days in the Joranian Desert.
Spencer and Vogue have largely stopped drinking and are parents to three children: Theodore, Gigi and Otto.
His next challenge is to try to break a world record, and this week he announced that he plans to run “the most consecutive marathons on sand.”
To safely prepare for the challenge, which will take place from July 29 to August 27, Spencer is undertaking a grueling training regimen, running more than 1,800km in preparation and acclimatising his body through sweat tests, and training up to 15 consecutive times. days in a laboratory-controlled heat chamber at 40°C and 40% humidity, in an effort to mimic Jordanian desert conditions.
The star has been training hard for weeks, and his weight loss led him to recently respond to critics who claimed he looked “too skinny” and declare that he is in the best shape of his life.
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