supports HTML5 videoThen the 34-year-old went on to tell Parliament how he had needed ‘repeated interventions’ to admit he was battling with mental health issues and alcohol addiction.
He continued: ‘Only looking back now have I been able to accept that in my 20s I nearly lost my life to alcohol twice. ‘I was saved only by the actions of others.
Drinking was destroying my body and damaging me and my relationships in so many other ways.‘Alcohol addiction isn’t about drinking every day or drunkenness, for me it was about losing who I was over a long period of time.‘It was desperate isolation, shutting down my personal life and using a drug – alcohol – to feel better, but ultimately to escape and giving up on living.’ Giving others hope, he.