Susannah Constantine has opened up about the time she decided to ask her family for help with her alcoholism.
The 60-year-old fashion guru appeared on ITV's Lorraine on Thursday to chat to Christine Lampard about her new memoir Ready For Absolutely Nothing and was refreshingly open and honest.
Christine, 43, spoke to Susannah about her childhood as well as her relationship with the late Princess Margaret.
At one point during the interview, Christine said of the book: "You mention the alcoholism and you describe yourself as aa high functioning alcoholic at one point, but there was that 'ding' moment wasn't there?"
Susannah replied: "For anyone who is suffering from alcoholism will identify with this, it had been building up to the point where I didn't have control over alcohol, it had control over me."
Speaking about the moment she decided to get help, she continued: "We were in Cornwall and I wasn't drinking much more than anyone else but I think when you drink consistently and daily, your body becomes like a saturated sponge and it doesn't take much to tip you over the edge.
"So I blacked out, I fell over, I broke two transverse processes in my back and I wet myself, and you can't get anything more humiliating than that. And my children witnessed this and my husband and brother-in-law took me up to bed.
"I don't know how I had the courage, but the next day I just got everyone round the table and I said, 'look I need help. I've been lying to you, I keep saying I'm not drinking, I'm drinking far more than any of you know and I need to do something about it'.
"And then I asked them all, 'how has this made you feel?' And they all told me and I knew that was the point I had to stop and had to start regaining the trust of my family because I'd been lying," Susannah added.
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