Model and DJ Vogue Williams has opened up about her "difficult year" and urged anyone who is going through a hard time to stay strong and keep positive.
The 29-year-old former Fade Street star, who announced her split with former Westlife singer Brian McFadden in July, said that she has realised she needs to look after herself for a change.
Taking to Instagram, she posted an inspirational quote along with the caption: “Life is so strange and at times extremely difficult. I haven’t had the best year and it doesn’t look like the rest of it will be much better but hard times only make you tougher.”
“I’m realising that I need to do more for myself and look after me for a change.
“I’m posting this now hoping to look back in six months and realise I got through the most difficult year in my life and I’m sure I’ll be in a much happier place when I see it,” she added.
“To anyone struggling, keep going because it will all be ok in the end.”
Williams recently gave her views on Ireland's drinking culture in her Sunday World column, saying we need to have a good look at our relationship with alcohol and admitted to being guilty of binge drinking.
“Like so many other people my age I am a binge drinker,” she wrote.
“What actually makes that worse is the fact that I don’t particularly love the taste of alcohol, so when I go out drinking with my friends it’s not for the enjoyment of a drink - it’s to get drunk.
“So many lives are lost in Ireland every year and it’s from the way we drink."
“Even writing this I feel hypocritical, but just like all my friends I will more than likely have over indulged by the time you are reading this," she added.
