Alex Scott admits drinking every night to block out pain after love life insight
express.co.uk“It’s like drink problem and alcohol has been huge in my life and here I was repeating those same patterns.“Drinking every night to switch off from the world after work.”Asked whether she wanted to switch off from her broadcasting job, Alex responded: “Yeah.To switch off from it all, switch off from just life, switch off from not talking to someone.“Don't want to speak because then I'd have to speak about emotions and the heaviness continues, right?“Like, if I don't speak about it, it's great it's going to go away, but it actually doesn’t.
It just gets bigger and bigger.”Alex then explained she one day realised she couldn’t continue that way and decided to seek therapy.The candid conversation comes after Alex opened up about her secret long-term relationship with her Arsenal and England teammate, Kelly Smith, in her new memoir.In the book, the sportswoman revealed that she “fell madly in love” with her former teammate, Kelly, 43.Alex, who generally keeps her personal life private, has spoken candidly about their relationship, and subsequent heartbreak, for the first time.Speaking at the launch of How (Not) To Be Strong last month, Alex explained that she wanted to reveal that part of her life because it would have been “cheating” to leave it out.
She also described Kelly as her “first love” and says their relationship was a “huge part of her life”.The pundit said, as reported by the Daily Mirror: “I went back and forth on whether I’d actually be writing the chapter.“But then it was one of those moments, I’m writing this book and I want to tell everything.
I thought I’d be cheating you all if I didn’t put that in there."For me, it’s like that first love story, I fell madly and deeply in love.
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