X Factor in 2012, said in June that she had never felt as 'alive and awake' since quitting the booze. She wrote on social media: "Eleven months ago I had no idea what kind of an impact giving up alcohol would have on my life but I knew I'd had enough of burying my problems, hiding behind the false confidence that drinking gave me and spending so much of my life just incredibly sad."Addressing her problem with drink she explained: "I didn't drink every day, I didn't physically depend on alcohol, I couldn't think of anything worse than drinking in the morning and I used to think that mean I didn't have a problem."I didn't fit the mould of what a person with an alcohol problem looked like.Get the latest updates from across Greater Manchester.
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