An alcoholic who started drinking at the age of 12 has opened up about the struggle of addiction and wants to help others overcome it.
Zosia Remvowski, 54, would often go into her school in Blackpool drunk. She left the school on the week of her 13th birthday and had begun to learn how to hide her addiction from those around her.
"I'd already sussed that if you carry mouthwash around with you - but that was quite expensive, so it'd be chewing gum, it'd be anything to take the smell away," Zosia told LancsLive. "Back then in school, it was nothing like it is now, so nothing was really followed up with.