Vicky Pattison has opened up about the real reason why she's chosen not to start a family yet.
The former Geordie Shore star appeared on Tuesday's This Morning to discuss her new Channel 4 documentary Vicky Pattison: My Dad, Alcohol and Me.
Speaking about her own drinking, Vicky told hosts Rochelle Humes and Vernon Kay that she'd had a "complicated relationship with alcohol" in the past.
"So, I suppose I feel a responsibility to break that stigma," she told them.
"We have to stop being so ashamed and afraid of addiction. We need to give it more sunlight, more candour, and stop perpetuating that culture of shame."
After watching a clip of the documentary, Rochelle said to Vicky: "Actually you would like a family but you've been a little bit reserved about that and sort of held off because you're sort of a little bit worried that perhaps your children will have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol?"
Vicky replied: "Over the years I've had every excuse for why I've not had kids yet... I was selfish, I was too young, there was more of my career I wanted to have first.
"If those reasons were legitimate it would have been absolutely fine but I think it was all sort of all hiding this feeling that I genuinely believed that I was gonna have children that felt in some way broken, a little bit like me," she added as her voice broke.
Composing herself, she continued: "But like the documentary has helped us so much realise that there is an element of alcoholism that is hereditary and learnt behaviour, but there's also a huge element of it that we can control if you get to it fast enough and you have the right resources around you."
Vicky added: "So for the first time in my life I do feel really hopeful in that sense," before saying making the documentary was "so cathartic" for her.
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