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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Paige Oldfield

'I was always the party girl - no one knew the dark truth I was hiding'

Christine Wright was always the party girl. Binge drinking every weekend, she was known as the fun and outgoing one among her friends.

But Christine was hiding a dark secret. The schoolgirl used alcohol to numb the reality of what was going on at home – and the worst was yet to come.

The mum-of-two was just 14-years-old when she started drinking. Her party lifestyle began following the breakdown of her parents’ marriage, a divorce which Christine struggled to accept.

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