Pretty Little Liars' Lucy Hale breaks down as she opens up on secret alcohol addiction
ok.co.ukUS actress Lucy Hale said she stopped drinking a year ago because she “deserved more out of this life” after battling years of alcohol addiction.The tearful 33-year-old described herself as a “textbook binge drinker” from her first experience of alcohol at 14 until last year.
On Valentines Day last week, the Pretty Little Liars star revealed on Instagram she had celebrated a year of sobriety, which had been a “mostly private” journey.
She told Steven Bartlett on The Diary Of A CEO podcast: “I have never talked publicly about being sober – I have a little over a year sobriety.
I have been working on getting sober since I was 20; I’m 33. It took time. It took patience with myself.”Hale said she had felt her “truest self” when drinking and described it as as a “self-destructive” coping mechanism.
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