Susannah Constantine has opened up about the "humiliating" experience that made her ask her family for support with her alcoholism.
The former What Not to Wear host, 60, has previously spoken about her issues with drinking and revealed in 2020 that she had been in recovery for a number of years.
Speaking to Christine Lampard on Thursday's episode of Lorraine on ITV, Constantine recalled the moment she admitted that alcohol had started to take over her life.
She said: "Anyone who is suffering from alcoholism will identify with this - it had been building up to the point where I didn't have control over alcohol, it had control over me.
"And we were in Cornwall, and I wasn't drinking much more than anyone else, but I think when you drink consistently and daily, your body becomes like a saturated sponge and it doesn't take much to tip you over the edge.
"So I blacked out. I fell over. I broke two transverse processes in my back and I wet myself, and you can't get anything more humiliating than that.
"And my children witnessed this and my husband and brother-in-law took me up to bed.
"I don't know how I had the courage, but the next day I just got everyone 'round the table and I said, 'Look, I need help. I've been lying to you. I keep saying I'm not drinking; I'm drinking far more than any of you know, and I need to do something about it'.
"And then I asked them all, 'How has this made you feel?' And they all told me, and I knew that was the point I had to stop and had to start regaining the trust of my family, because I'd been lying."
The fashion adviser rose to fame alongside Trinny Woodall with their style series What Not to Wear. They went on to co-host Trinny & Susannah Undress and Undress the Nation.
She has just published her memoir, Ready for Absolutely Nothing.
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Source: Press Association
