Denise Welch has celebrated eight years sober, hailing it as the best thing she has ever done.
The Loose Women presenter, 61, uploaded a video message where she said getting sober has changed her life and praised her husband Lincoln Townley, 47, who did it alongside her.
In her video, Denise said: ‘Today, April 18th I am celebrating being 8 years sober and I just want to thank everybody who has supported me on this journey. If it wasn’t for my husband Lincoln who got sober with me I don’t know where I would be.
Achievement: Denise Welch, 60, has celebrated eight years sober, hailing it as the best thing she has ever done
Denise gave words of encouragement to anyone struggling with sobriety, insisting it will change their life for the better.
She said: ‘If any if you are in the early stages or wherever you are in your sobriety journey I just want to say it will be the best thing you have ever done.
‘And for me it just hasn’t changed my life, but it has changed the life of all of the people that love me and, indeed, my friends.’
Denise added that her and Lincoln’s decision to get sober has also had an enormous impact on their children.
Love: Denise said getting sober has changed her life and praised her husband Lincoln Townley, 47, who did it alongside her
The TV presenter is mother to sons Matt, 31, and Louis Healy, 19, with ex husband Tim Healy, who she divorced in 2012, while Lincoln also has a son from a previous relationship.
She said: ‘But by us getting sober we have given our three sons wings to fly without having to worry about us.
‘It renewed my relationship with my family which my drinking had somewhat tried to destroy, I was in a very bad place.’
Denise said: ‘Today, April 18th I am celebrating being 8 years sober and I just want to thank everybody who has supported me on this journey’
Alongside the video, Denise wrote: ‘8 yrs sober today!!! Best decision I ever made, not just for myself but for everyone who loves me.’
Denise and Lincoln tied the knot in July 2013 in Portugal, after becoming engaged in August 2012.
Lincoln previously credited his wife with helping him to become sober, leading him to become one of the country’s most in-demand artists.
Speaking to The Mirror, the London-born art sensation said of his other half: ‘drinking never brought anything good into my life except for Denise.’
She added: ‘If it wasn’t for my husband Lincoln who got sober with me I don’t know where I would be’ (pictured in March 2018)
‘We got to the point where we knew the best way to do it was to embrace sobriety together.’
Addressing their joint journey into sobriety, he shared: ‘We have known each other through a very dark time and we wanted to create something out of what we had. We’re here and we’re both very happy and that’s the way it works for us.’
Lincoln added that it’s ‘not hard’ to stay sober as the couple have plenty going on in their lives to keep them busy and focused.
Denise has spoken about the couple getting sober on Loose Women in the past.
Denise said: ‘If any if you are in the early stages or wherever you are in your sobriety journey I just want to say it will be the best thing you have ever done’
She said: ‘It’s five years in October since I left, it’s incredible because it feels like I never left. My main thing in five years is I got married and I got sober.
‘It culminated in meeting Lincoln, we call it the madness, as he was a functioning alcoholic, he’s now a wonderful contemporary artist selling all over the world because of his sobriety and talent. He was then running a nightclub.
‘We met each other and everything about our relationship was wonderful, apart from when we drank and that was the downfall.’
Relationship: Denise and Lincoln tied the knot in July 2013 in Portugal, after becoming engaged in August 2012 (pictured in May 2017)