He has since lost four stone after being warned that he was ‘heading for a heart attack’ by his doctor, and managed to develop a better relationship with alcohol thanks to his fourth wife Anna.
He explained: ‘I don’t think the people out there boozing all the time are in a good mental state – I definitely wasn’t. It means you don’t want to go home.‘I’d start at 10 in the morning then have a big lunch with a few more drinks, have a couple in the afternoon followed by a big dinner.‘At the weekends, I used to call my sofa the Betty Ford Clinic.
It was drink dependency, I just didn’t realise. It all seemed like fun.‘It might have also been loneliness and a desire to just party and go out all the time.
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