AFTER taking to the rink for her first number in Dancing on Ice, Michelle Heaton was overcome with emotion as she praised the show for giving her a "second chance".
It was a heartfelt sentiment from the Liberty X singer who, just two years ago, was in the grip of a drink and drug addiction that nearly cost her her family and her life.
When she hit rock bottom she was drinking a bottle of vodka and two bottles of wine a day. She was hospitalised on several occasions and admitted she prioritised buying booze over taking kids Faith, 11, and AJ, nine, to school. “I'd given up on life,” the 43-year-old told Closer in a recent interview. “At my lowest point I'd wake up in the morning and pray for someone to help me, or I just wanted to die.
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