Caitlin Moran used drinking and smoking to combat ‘massive social anxiety’
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breakingnews.ieCaitlin Moran has said she used drinking and smoking to manage her “massive social anxiety” as a young woman. But the author and journalist, whose semi-autobiographical novel How To Build A Girl has been adapted into a film, said she was no longer a “problematic” drinker.
She recalled apologising to Jimmy Carr and Jonathan Ross by email after embarrassing herself at their parties while drunk. Writing in The Big Issue’s Letter To My Younger Self section, she said: “I had massive social anxiety due to being raised at home and never talking to anybody. “I wish I could go back to the earliest point where I started socialising and tell myself I didn’t need to drink and smoke in order to talk to other people. “I’m a lightweight so I’ve been to
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