Loose Women panellist opened up about her 31-year mental illness battle. During her time on Coronation Street, the actress recalled how she would hide in her dressing room "sleeping or pretending I was asleep, so I didn’t have to talk to anyone".
In an excerpt of her book, obtained by The Mirror, Denise discussed her dependence on booze as a way of dealing with her depression.'Because of my mental illness, there were times I didn’t know if I was going to make it through," she wrote."Alcohol made things worse.
I drank a lot, reaching for anything to take away the pain and keep me going... to lift the isolation and loneliness. It put me into kind of a dead zone."For the two or three hours I was actually consuming alcohol, it obliterated my.
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