Michelle Heaton has appeared on Loose Women today (May 5) celebrating one year since she stopped drinking alcohol and admitting she finally feels “really strong.” Charlene White asked the former popstar how life is a year on and Michelle replied, “If somebody told me again nine months ago I’d be feeling free, happy, that feeling of the knots in your stomach and ‘not sure whether I can do this’... I think the fear is, ‘Can I actually do this?’ because all I knew the past seven or eight years is active addiction.”
She added, “It’s hard to think about the new you because you don’t know who you are. I’m glad I made it. But it’s still one day at a time… I still do my programme.. I keep it so I can keep my sobriety.” Talking about when she went Into The Priory, Michelle admitted she was “selfish to the core” and “manipulative”.
She added, “Drinking was so exhausting, it occupied every waking moment, so this is easy… I’ve got a really happy sense of being now, and I just didn’t.” On the effect Michelle’s addiction had on her children, Michelle explained, “I had no regards to what was happening to my family. It’s shameful to say that sometimes they were in my way. When the kids really needed a cuddle, I just wasn’t there for them… It wasn’t until I got sober and clean could I recognise how I was behaving. And then the guilts come in. Working through guilt in sobriety is tough as well.”
