Lulu was “very secretive” as she battled alcoholism as a result of she felt “so ashamed”.
Lulu felt ashamed of her battle with alcohol
The 76-year-old pop veteran lately opened up about her battle with booze for the primary time and now she’s revealed she managed to maintain her ingesting drawback from her household in addition to music trade buddies together with Sir Elton John.
Throughout an look on UK TV present This Morning on Wednesday (24.09.25), she defined: “It was by no means dangerous as a result of I used to be by no means a fall-down drunk.
“My son did not know. He stated: ‘Wait a minute, Mum, are you certain … ?’ and Elton [John] stated: ‘How the f*** did I miss that?'”
Lulu then apologised for swearing on dwell TV including: “I am so sorry, I’m so sorry. Additionally, it is me attempting to push the story. How did I miss that?”
She went on to say: “I used to be very secretive, I used to be so ashamed of it. I might exit and have a drink, a few drinks.
“I might go dwelling, and have one other drink. You recognize you are an alcoholic if you cannot cease. I’ve a variety of pals who’ve a drink and say: ‘Oh I’ve had sufficient,’ however I could not do this …
“I used to be a highly-functioning alcoholic, that is why no one knew. I might go to sleep sozzled. I might set the alarm, get up for work the following day, brush myself off and go to work.”
Lulu additionally defined how she confessed her secret to her sister, who inspired the singer to verify herself right into a rehab clinic in 2013.
She stated: “I had a party and everybody left besides my sister and her children as a result of two of them dwell with me. My niece stated: ‘Oh so and so, he is hanging on by his fingernails’ … Speaking about his drawback with alcohol, and I do not know the place it got here from, I stated: ‘He isn’t the one one’.
“My sister stated very kindly: ‘I do know, and I’ve identified for a while’. The cat was out of the bag. It was if somebody up there appreciated me. I now needed to get sharing.
“I could not ask for assist earlier than however in that second I checked out my sister and stated: ‘I’ve to go to rehab, do not I?’ She stated: ‘I feel so.’ I used to be there the following day.”
Lulu lately spoke out about her battle with dependancy in an interview with The Instances newspaper, saying: “I used to be a secret drinker.
“I feel I all the time wished to be Miss Good, the ‘finest Lulu’, and I used to be petrified of being like my father.
“For years, I made a selection to not speak about [my alcoholism] publicly. I selected to attend till I had the language to know it earlier than I might begin spouting off.
“I’ve learnt loads from different folks, their memoirs, and self-help books too, so possibly I could be of some assist now.”
Lulu believes her ingesting was “controllable” till she reached her sixties and her son Jordan Frieda, now 48, left dwelling.
She instructed the publication: “For me, it had been controllable till I acquired into my sixties.
“After I turned menopausal, with each my mother and father gone, the empty nest, trying round and seeing all of the younger children within the music trade, I turned an increasing number of reliant on it and so it simply acquired worse.
“For a few years, and I can’t say what number of, I had not been pleased with the best way I felt, in no way joyful and [yet] unable to ask for assist.”
