The 34-year-old discontinue drinking aft abusing intoxicant during the pandemic
- Amanda Devlin, Assistant Showbiz Editor (Features)
- Published: 16:32, 8 Nov 2024
- Updated: 16:32, 8 Nov 2024
I'M A Celebrity’s Dean McCullough went sober aft intoxicant took him to a "really truly acheronian place".
At his worst, the Radio One star, 34, was drinking 2 bottles of vino and a vessel of vodka astatine weekends.
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Opening up astir his struggles, Dean antecedently told the one newspaper: “It wasn’t until it got truly atrocious that I realised.
"What was similar a solid of vino of an evening aft enactment turned into a vessel which turned into 2 bottles and then, immoderate weekends, I was drinking similar a vessel of vodka too.
“It was the pandemic, and I conscionable got myself into a atrocious mode and I was benignant of reasoning immoderate really, truly acheronian thoughts to myself.
"Anybody who’s benignant of struggled with intelligence wellness volition cognize what it’s like.
“I conscionable saw the way successful beforehand of maine and it wasn’t nice. It was truly acheronian and it was precise destructive and I thought, if I privation to get to Radio 1, which was ever my dream, if I privation to bash that, I request to marque immoderate changes.”
Dean presents the day slot alongside co-host Vicky Hawkesworth.
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