Mary Coughlan has opened up about the height of her struggles with drink, admitting: ‘I had tequila sunrises for breakfast.’ The jazz singer has always been open about her struggles with alcohol and the effect that it had on her personal and professional life.
But now she has admitted that on more than one occasion she was so deeply in the grip of alcohol addiction that she believed it would end her life.
In a new interview, Coughlan said that her early forays into drinking were sparked by ‘guilt’ as her career started to take off.
The artist had been so involved at home that she admitted to breastfeeding her children until they were ‘running’, but that situation changed when she began touring more.
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