A heartbroken former salesman who turned to cocaine binges and spent hundreds of thousands of pounds gambling online after his mum died from cancer has turned his life around after rehab by co-founding a platform to support fellow addicts. Shattered by grief but unable to process his emotions after his beloved mum Victoria, 48, died in April 2018, Ed Williams, 22, sought distraction in work, alcohol, cocaine and partying – until March 2020, when lockdown hit and his cocaine binges led to gambling.
While still thriving in sales by day, every night, Ed, who lives in North Yorkshire, would gamble until 3am while high on cocaine, eventually spending thousands of pounds a time on casino slot games. Only when his family stepped in to send Ed to rehab in July 2021 and help with his debts did he come to terms with the grief, depression and PTSD he was suffering.
And he met his now-business partner, Daniel Fincham, 39, who was also in rehab and invited him to help launch a new platform to support addicts. Now proudly leading their new platform, Recoverlution, Ed, said: “By January 2021, I was broken as a person.
