‘I was a highly functioning binge-drinker’, says Ulrika Jonsson

Ulrika Jonsson has revealed she is 4 months sober aft admitting she was utilizing intoxicant to “escape from my woes”.

The TV presenter told the Sun paper she “sobbed similar a child” aft her champion person told her she needed assistance with her drinking.

Having divided with hubby Brian Monet successful 2019, Jonsson said she had “no 1 to thin on” amid “family problems and idiosyncratic issues”.

“It was conscionable maine and my friend, the drink,” she told the newspaper.

Jonsson said she knew determination was a occupation due to the fact that “I nary longer recognised myself”.

The 57-year-old said she wasn’t a regular drinker but she was heading towards drinking each time “when things got atrocious implicit the past year”.

“I established a regular of drinking past punishing myself with hard enactment done my hangover,” she said.

“And past reward myself with different portion astatine the extremity of it all.”

Jonsson said sobriety had brought her “much-needed peace”.

“Drink quelled my anxiety,” she said.

“I was a highly functioning binge drinker. I ne'er woke up dishevelled successful a excavation of sick.

“But the fig of times I would achromatic retired and not callback the nighttime earlier erstwhile I had been drinking alone, were increasing.”

Jonsson said that drinking “stifled my anger” arsenic she utilized it to “remember the bully times and to hide the contiguous atrocious times”.

“It was the cleanable flight from my woes,” she told the newspaper.

“When I drank, I felt I became a better, nicer person, and much equipped to cope.

“The truth, of course, was rather the opposite.”