Denise Welch feared breaking eight-year sobriety during 'challenging lockdown'
People will be swerving alcohol this month in a bid to get back in shape, as well as raise money for charities such as Alcohol Change UK, which supports those trying to give up drinking. Unlike past years, January 2021 will be tough for millions of Britons as they face ongoing lockdown measures due to the coronavirus pandemic. This could make the challenge of giving up alcohol for 31 days even tougher, and Loose Women star Denise shared her difficulties staying sober during the first lockdown, which began in March 2020.
Denise has been teetotal for eight years, and expressed the problems she and husband Lincoln Townley faced while remaining indoors.
She said that although neither had “felt we’d pick up a drink”, there were “good times and bad times” during lockdown, adding that they “would like nothing more than to take the edge off”.
Her fellow ITV panelist Nadia Sawalha agreed while discussing the topic of sobriety during the pandemic last year on Loose Women.
Nadia talked about her husband Mark Adderley, who has been sober for 15 years, claiming she now “doesn’t drink at home”.
