for her role as Mandy Dingle on Emmerdale, has opened up about a significant milestone in her life: her 9-year
journey of sobriety. During an interview on Lorraine with host Ranvir Singh on Thursday, August 15, Riley shared t
he heart-wrenching story of how she turned to alcohol to cope with the devastating loss of her mother.
Riley candidly admitted that she used alcohol as a form of self-medication, saying, “I’ve spoken a lot about this. I was self-medicating with alcohol. I wasn’t sleeping because I’d lost my mom, and I wasn’t coping very well.” The grief and pain of her mother’s death drove her to drink two bottles of Malbec each night just to get some rest, but it wasn’t long before she realized the damage it was doing to her life.
