Vicky Pattison on 'self-sabotaging' with alcohol: 'I was at risk of losing everything'
26.07.2022 - 11:23
/ ok.co.uk
Vicky Pattison has candidly admitted she was "at risk of losing everything" as she turned to alcohol after winning I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! in 2015.The 34 year old beat Union J singer George Shelley and former The Only Way Is Essex star Ferne McCann to be crowned Queen of the Jungle on the hit ITV show, but tells OK! she was struggling with her alcohol intake following her victory. Former Geordie Shore star Vicky is opening up about her relationship with alcohol in a new documentary about her dad, John, who is a recovering alcoholic.
Discussing her excessive drinking, she told us: "I had everything I’d ever wanted and I still wasn’t happy. "I was self-sabotaging with alcohol and I knew I was going to lose everything I’d worked for. "I thought to myself, 'If you don't take control of your actions, you're going to end up alone and like your dad,' which has always been my greatest fear." Speaking about life after her I'm A Celebrity...
win, Vicky continued: "From the outside looking in, in my late-twenties I had the world at my feet. "I had a glamorous job, I’d just won the Jungle, but that couldn’t have been further from the truth. I was really struggling.
"And the more I struggled, my default setting was to drink. I was very grateful to be in the position I was in but I also felt like I didn’t deserve any of it." Opening up about her relationship with her dad, the reality star – who recently thew a lavish party to celebrate her engagement to Ercan Ramadan – said: "I’ve always been very close to my dad, which the documentary shows, because I think I have more in common with him than I’d like. "But there have been times when it was very difficult to love him.
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