Ulrika Jonsson has revealed a secret drink problem threatened to overpower her before she quit alcohol completely. The 57-year-old presenting icon has revealed she would at times drink until she would black out. Friends were concerned when they would try to have conversations with her - but she was so drunk she made no sense - and she would wake up with no memory of the night before.
The Scandinavian bombshell admits she used to drink in order to deal with feelings of anxiety, but insists that her life is looking much better now that she has quit alcohol. She has now been sober for four months and has been thrilled by the health benefits that she has noticed. The TV host - who grew to prominence as a weather host in the late 1980s - said that she had to reach a point where she wanted to find help herself as one concerned friend had already tried to tell her she had a problem.
She is now sharing her story in the hope of helping others. The star explained to The Sun: “Drink quelled my anxiety. It transported me to another place where I felt at peace — where the problems of the world couldn’t reach me and, most importantly, where I felt numb.
I drank to kill my feelings of anxiety and my fears of everything. “I was a highly functioning binge-drinker. I never woke up dishevelled in a pool of sick.
But the number of times I would black out and not recall the night before when I had been drinking alone, were increasing." Ulrika went on to reveal a friend bluntly confronted .