Marian Keyes appeared on The Tommy Tiernan Show this weekend where she spoke openly about her drinking problems. Viewers branded her a ‘national treasure’ as she got candid about her issues with the comedian.
She told Tommy how she used to drink because she wanted ‘oblivion’ as she ‘just couldn’t bear being [herself]’. The author began drinking when she was just 14 years of age and explained how drinking quickly became the most important thing in her life, saying ‘it was all about alcohol’. ‘The wheels were coming off in my final years in school and I was very angry,’ he explained to Tommy. ‘And then in college, I drank so much, I drank everything and from much earlier, it was all about alcohol.
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