Stephanie Davis has opened up about how her autism triggered “severe social anxiety” and left unable to “leave the house without a drink”.
The former Hollyoaks actress was diagnosed with high-functioning autism (HFA) in 2019 after being admitted to rehab. Stephanie’s parents took her to a facility for treatment as she was “drinking herself to death” and self-medicating with alcohol as anxiety and the fallout from her tumultuous relationship with fellow Celebrity Big Brother star Jeremy McConnell took her to a dark place. “Before I was diagnosed with high-functioning autism, drinking was the only thing I knew,” Stephanie, who is now sober, exclusively tells OK!. “I needed to drink a bottle of wine before a night out because of my severe anxiety in social settings.
I also needed to know the layouts of places. So when I’d walk into somewhere new I'd go, ‘Right, the toilets are there, the bar is there.’” Stephanie turned her life around for sake of her son Caben Albi, five, whose dad is Irish model and reality star Jeremy.
He was convicted of attacking Steph in their Merseyside home while she was holding their son, who was then eight weeks old. The 29 year old went to bravely share how her reliance on how alcohol ending up “destroying” her and left her suicidal.
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