Danny O'Donoghue has opened up about going sober after last Christmas (Picture: Mariano Regidor/Redferns) The Script frontman Danny O'Donoghue has described a low point before he gave up alcohol following the death of his bandmate Mark Sheehan in April 2023. The Irish singer said he had intended to go 'stone-cold sober' for the whole of Christmas, after the death of his 46-year-old bandmate Sheehan, who died from a brief, undisclosed illness. However, The Voice star revealed that once he had returned to Dublin from the UK for the festive period he immediately started drinking.
The 43-year-old told the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast: 'By the time I'd got off the plane, I was smashed. With every intention to get on that plane saying, I'm not going to drink at all and then while I was on it, whiskey please. 'Bang, and then I just hammered the whiskeys, got home and I pretty much spent Christmas just pissed.
'I do one thing on Christmas Day, have been doing it for 14 years now, where I attend Temple Street Children's Hospital from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon and spend time with the kids and nurses. He recalled his grief following the death of Mark Sheehan (Picture: Mairo Cinquetti/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) 'It's a beautiful, beautiful morning. I wasn't drunk Christmas Eve.
After the hospital I just went straight out to my sister's, had dinner, straight on the Guinness again and I went like, the 25th,...
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