Lucy Spraggan admits alcohol has ‘closed so many doors’ in her life

Lucy Spraggan has told how her previous dependence on alcohol ‘closed so many doors’ in her life and she feels lucky to have ‘escaped’ what she put herself through.

The singer, 29, who gave up alcohol last year, penned a passionate post about her relationship with drinking as she discussed her new single Sober.

The former X Factor star shared a still from the song’s music video where she appeared teary eyed while looking into the camera. 

Alongside the picture, Lucy wrote: ‘Here is the artwork for my new single “Sober”. It’s a still from the video. My relationship with alcohol has been a very difficult and sad thing.

‘My drinking has closed so many doors in my life and the gravity of that only really hit me once I decided to stop drinking.

‘I feel really lucky to have escaped from the s**t I was putting myself through and to have still had time to wedge some of the doors back open again.

‘Sobriety isn’t for everyone, there are so many people out there who can drink normally and have a great time. So many who can drink in moderation and have a great time. Who don’t wake up with anxiety about what they said or did.

‘I admire those people. They are my friends and some of my family, the wonderful people I go out on nights out with.

Lucy told how she would drink to help herself relax but her dependence on it soon turned into a ‘vicious cycle’.  

She wrote: ‘I found myself drinking to “take the edge off” and then doing the same the night after to “take the edge off” the edge I’d created for myself the night before.

‘Long winded way of saying my drinking career has been a vicious cycle since it began. You might think I talk about this a lot – you’re right, I do.

‘It’s because maybe if I’d have seen someone talking openly and honestly about their unhealthy relationship with alcohol a little earlier in my life I might have thought “hey, that sounds a bit like me” and I might have got to this point a little sooner.

Lucy then told her followers you don’t need to show any of the stereotypical signs associated with alcoholism to have a problem with alcohol.  

She said: ‘You don’t have to wake up and want to drink every morning to have a problem with alcohol.

‘You don’t have to drink hard spirits secretly. You might not necessarily cause trouble when you drink.

‘The truth is, it doesn’t have a look or a label. And it most certainly didn’t for me.

‘My new single explains that truth, and even if it doesn’t relate to you, it might relate to someone you know. Big love to anyone battling their demons.’

In June, Lucy celebrated 11 months of sobriety with an impassioned post about how quitting drinking had changed her life for the better.

She wrote: ’11 months of sobriety, amongst a lot of other achievements I hold highly, is my biggest to date. Next month I turn 29 years old and 12 months sober. I have never felt as alive and awake as I do right now.’