I sometimes down two bottles of wine a night, admits Loose Women’s Carol
SHE’S made no secret of the fact she enjoys a drink or two. But now TV host Carol McGiffin has confessed she can happily down two bottles of wine in a night.
The former panellist on ITV’s Loose Women admitted that she drinks alcohol ‘nearly every day’ despite having nasty hangovers.
The 57-year- old ex-wife of Chris Evans describes her battle with the bottle in her latest column for Best magazine, adding that the warm weather made her consume more. ‘[I’ve been drinking] nearly as much as everyone thinks, and nearly every day,’ she wrote.
‘Every time I get drunk, I say I’m never drinking again, but I always do. So I’ll just say I’m not going to drink any more. But I’m not going to drink any less, either.’
She has previously spoken of her ‘chaotic’ relationship with Evans in the 1990s. After they met when she was 31, and Evans, 24, she described how the pair would often have booze-fuelled rows. ‘I turned into a crazy, dependent, idiotic human being bearing absolutely no resemblance to the person that I was when I met him,’ she said in 2010.
‘Chris was like a Class A drug and I was well and truly addicted.’
The self-confessed party girl has continued her heavy drinking with her 35-year-old fiance Mark Cassidy. The former journalist, whose husband-to-be is 22 years her junior, said she still enjoys binge sessions.
‘Don’t get me wrong, I can still down two bottles a night,’ she said. ‘And that’s after dinner, especially on a hot night when my partner Mark and I are sitting outside!’
Her struggle with alcohol has been well documented. In 2013, when she appeared on Celebrity Big Brother, her fellow housemates hid drink from her after a foul-mouthed rant.
Earlier this year, Miss McGiffin told of how she lost her sister Tracy to breast cancer after a short battle. She also lost her mother to the disease and has revealed that she survived breast cancer herself.
She was diagnosed in April 2014 and went on to have a mastectomy, along with six months of chemotherapy and 15 doses of radiotherapy.
‘I’m not going to drink any less’