Hannah Brown Says She Used Alcohol as a Coping Mechanism to Deal With Sudden Fame: I Was ‘Not in the Best Place’

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Learning to cope. Hannah Brown revealed that she turned to alcohol as a way to deal with her sudden fame and the anxiety that comes with being in the public eye.“I’d never really been a drinker before and I was on TV, like, every Monday for an entire year and didn’t know how to handle how my life had so publicly been displayed,” the Alabama native 27, said during an appearance on The Tamron Hall Show on Friday, April 29. “[I] have always lived with a smile on my face and, you know, tried to pretend like everything was OK.

But then when I was at home by myself, the only thing that was really giving me comfort was a glass of wine.”Brown added that soon, it began to take “more than that” to deal with how she was feeling inside. “[I have] no excuses for mistakes that I’ve made but also, I was not in the best place of life,” the former Bachelorette explained. “And [I] didn’t know what resources I had to be able to get that help.”The former pageant queen previously opened up about her struggles with alcohol in her memoir, God Bless This Mess, writing that on May 16, 2020, she “started drinking at 11 a.m. — and never really stopped. … I’d been drinking more.

Sometimes a lot more. It was another way of avoiding the big problems, I guess.”Brown told Entertainment Tonight in November 2021 that she started drinking in the wake of her split from season 15 winner Jed Wyatt, after it came out that he had a girlfriend when he came on The Bachelorette.

When things didn’t work out with her runners-up, Tyler Cameron and Peter Weber, her drinking got worse.“It was really interesting to see how it goes from one glass of wine, two glasses of wine, three glasses of wine, tequila,” she explained at the time. “I’ve definitely reassessed how