Yahoo News Loose Women’s Denise Welch hit 'tipping point' after health battle made her risk sobriety
Loose Women star Denise Welch has revealed that she hit 'tipping point' as she opened up on a recent health battle.
The TV personality was speaking to Alex Partridge on the ADHD Chatter podcast as she revealed that an incident last year made her want to drink alcohol and smoke after being sober for the last 11 years. The former Coronation Street actor, who has been sober for over a decade, had originally turned to drink and drugs after suffering with clinical depression.
After initially opting not to take medication for her ADHD, Denise said that after discussing her reasons with her husband, Lincoln, she began to reconsider her original decision, and first took the medication on what she described as a 'big night' as her singer son, Matty Healy was set to play at the o2 arena, London with his band, the 1975.
Explaining that she thought that the medication would have an immediate impact on her symptoms of ADHD, the Loose Women icon joked as she said that she expected to be more 'focused' and not as keen on 'multitasking' and her head would be less 'scrambled'.
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But, as time went by, she realised that the reality was very different, as she said: "So, I thought I'm going to take this tablet and by the time I leave our London apartment, I'm going to have vacuumed everywhere and I'm going to have thought, right, for once I really want to settle down to that bulk of affairs that I've ignored since I was 18-years-old."
Initially not feeling any impact whatsoever from her medication, the TV host even joked that she was still not feeling the 'need to do her taxes'.
But that soon changed, as she said: "An hour later I wanted a drink and a cigarette for the first time in 11 years and it was horrendous how it affected me. Had I not been so many years into (it) and so secure managing my sobriety it would have been a very very dangerous tipping point for me."
While medication for ADHD have not yielded positive results for her, she said: "One of the things I am always glad of the opportunity of being able to tell people is that, ADHD medication changes so many peoples lives for the better, but there are some people it is not good for and I was absolutely one of them."
