A mum who spent £3,000-a-year drinking 20 cans of Irn-Bru a day has finally kicked her 25-year habit after being hypnotised. Carole Lamond, 57, first became hooked on the Scottish fizzy drink when she was a young girl in Glasgow before she moved down to live in London.
The HR manager returned to her home country around 25 years ago and began swigging several cans of Irn-Bru a day. But during lockdown her addiction spiralled out of control as she worked from home and she soon began guzzling down a staggering 20 cans before bed.
The problem got so bad that she would start hiding it around the house so her husband William, 52, would not find out the extent of her dependency. During two years of lockdown she drank almost 15,000 Irn-Brus - including 94,000g of sugar and 450,000mg of caffeine - as she splashed out £60 a week on 24 packs.
