Former Sunrise host Talitha Cummins celebrates ten years without alcohol after a major turning point forced her to be sober: “My work facade has crumbled. Everybody knew’
Former TV host Talitha Cummins has reflected on her journey to sobriety, revealing she decided to give up booze after missing a weekend of work.
The 42-year-old mother-of-two told The Daily Telegraph she had tried “several times” to quit drinking before she got sober a decade ago.
“My chief of staff sat me down after I didn’t come to work for a weekend and just said, ‘you’re not okay, are you? and I just said “no”. My work facade had collapsed. Everyone knew,” she said.
Former TV host Talitha Cummins has reflected on her journey to sobriety, revealing she decided to give up booze after missing a weekend job
While admitting it’s ‘difficult at times’, the Gold Coast-born presenter said she ‘can’t stop’ thinking about what she wouldn’t have if she was still drinking.
“I have an amazing husband and two kids,” she said.
“The chaotic life I was leading would never have allowed me to have this…
“When you drink a lot, you tend to hang out with people who may not be right for you.”
The mother-of-two, 42, told The Daily Telegraph she had tried “several times” to quit drinking before she got sober a decade ago.
She added that she now had ‘the ability to peel back the layers of therapy’ and there was a ‘freedom’ to ‘understand why she was doing the things she was doing’.
“I support myself now. I don’t rely on alcohol to build my confidence, so I really had to develop myself.
The mother-of-two is now starting her own business in the diamond industry, revealing she wouldn’t have had the confidence to do the same ten years ago.
Talitha married her husband Lucas in October 2013 in a very low-key ceremony in New York.
Speaking about her 20-year battle with alcoholism and mental illness with the Australian Women’s Weekly in 2017, Talitha said: “I was the girl who could drink any guy under the table
They welcomed their first son, Oliver Paul Lucas in August 2016 and welcomed a baby girl two years later.
At the height of her alcoholism, she drank four bottles of wine a night. And yet the newsreader, Talitha, would be up at 5 a.m., ready to read the morning news.
Speaking about her 20-year battle with alcoholism and mental illness with the Australian Women’s Weekly in 2017, Talitha said: ‘I was the girl who could drink any guy under the table.
“The media is notorious for its drinking culture, so if anything, I was raised to the top of the class for my ability to hold my alcohol down.”
At the height of her alcoholism, she drank four bottles of wine a night. And yet the newsreader, Talitha, would be up at 5 a.m., ready to read the morning news. Pictured young
In the candid interview, Talitha opened up about her addiction and the background details that come with being a highly functional and active alcoholic.
“I became strategic. I mapped out a number of bottle shops and changed them regularly lest one of the guys behind the counter suspected the bubbly blonde on TV was getting crushed every night,” she said. declared.
She also admitted to taking up exercise in order to “bring” her body back to sobriety:
“The alarm would go off at 5am and I would be out for a 10k run with a black coffee under my belt – often still drunk,” Talitha added.
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