Michelle Heaton has revealed she is still suffering from health issues after kicking the drugs and booze.
The 42-year-old Liberty X star spent six months in The Priory for her addictions earlier this year.
At her worst Michelle was downing two bottles of wine, one bottle of vodka and snorting cocaine every day.
Seven months on the singer is looking forward to her first sober Christmas with husband Hugh Hanley and kids Faith, nine, and seven-year-old AJ.
But her health problems aren’t completely over she shared in an interview with OK! magazine.
She said: “I still suffer with problems with my pancreas and have to take medication, but my liver is fully repaired and I’m really healthy.”
Mum-of-two Michelle says she can now enjoy food again and finally has a sleep routine as she is no longer “walking around in a haze”.
At one point she was scared to go sleep as she was “afraid of not waking up” – but things are different these days
The star, who scored hits with Liberty X in the Noughties such as Just A Little and Got To Have Your Love, is now a regular at Alcoholics Anonymous sessions.
She revealed she has been following the 12-step programme and attending drug counselling sessions.
Michelle has a sponsor she is regularly in touch with and also sponsors other addicts. In the future she hopes to help people suffering from addiction in institutions like rehab clinic The Priory and prisons.
For now, the singer is just grateful she is able to spend time with her family again after putting them through a “three-year hell”.
Although he knew about the drink, her husband Hugh had no idea his wife was also hooked on cocaine until she went into rehab in April.
He said the family tried to get Michelle to seek treatment in 2019 but at that stage of her addiction she wasn’t ready.
“There were many times where I could have walked away, it would have been easier,” Hugh revealed. “Life with an addict is extraordinarily hard. We’ve got a second chance.”
Looking to the future, Michelle said she is excited to take the kids to Lapland UK for Christmas.
It is also the first year the entertainer - who was put in Liberty X after appearing on Popstars - hasn’t performed in panto.
“To not have work, be present at home, sober and well, and not have died – as that’s where I was heading. It could have ended so differently. I feel so lucky to be alive.”
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