imer Lisa Riley has opened up about her 9year sobriety Milestone during an interview on Lorraine speaking to host ranver

Singh on Thursday August 15 Riley said she used alcohol to self-medicate following the death of her mother I’ve spoken a

lot about this I was self-medicating with alcohol Riley said I wasn’t sleeping because I’d lost my mom and I wasn’t coping

very well according to Riley who stars as Emeril’s Mandy Dingle she was drinking two bottles of malbeck a night to help her
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sleep before quitting altogether Riley who will be celebrating being 9 years sober on Monday set of the upcoming anniversary I’m going to be 9 years sober I just stopped drinking for the good and the better for me I prefer me now I’m sober I never thought that I’d be sat here with you now saying that this coming Monday I’m 9 years sober explaining that she couldn’t get through events without alcohol Riley revealed how she would play games with herself about how long she could go without alcohol saying all of a sudden
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you become obsessed I never thought that I’d be here now I love it she added the fake me has completely gone and I don’t ever want to have that back because it’s a better place to be elsewhere in the interview Riley shared her thoughts on Patty and Mandy dingle’s future following a day of wedding drama viewers will know Patty and Mandy’s wedding was nearly called off after it was revealed that Mandy had been working as an online dominatrix the pair did however end up tying the knot in an emotional episode
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teasing the future of Mandy’s dominatrix career Riley said the things they give Mandy to do are out there a little bit Bonke