Emma Willis kept a daily diary of all the drugs and drink her hubby Matt consumed. I wasn’t on as much champagne as the former Busted bassist, but that moment in the BBC’s documentary Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction had me weeping on my living room sofa.
Sitting down to watch the TV presenter and pop star explore his fight to stay sober took me right back to my own battles with addiction. It chews you up and drains the people that love you. In my wilder youth, before I got 20 years clean and sober, there were times when I would turn up at my parents’ house near Richmond exhausted and worn out after an all-nighter, and they wouldn’t let me back in. My family and I became more like enemies. That only isolated me more.
