Florence Welch fired up her Instagram page this Tuesday to celebrate the fact that ‘I am 7 years sober today.’

She wrote: ‘I send my love and support to anyone who is struggling. If you are feeling shaky around ED issues, drugs or alcohol, I completely understand.’

The 34-year-old singer added: ‘The desire to disassociate is so strong. But please don’t give up. We are going to need you on the other side.’

Her post included a picture of her hand touching a painting of the number 7 surrounded by a heart with two arrows in it. 

Florence, who became a star with her band Florence And The Machine in 2009, has been candid about the hard-drinking lifestyle she kept up early in her career.

The Kiss With A Fist singer went on the wagon early in 2014 and released her next album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful the following year.

Prior to getting sober Florence found herself on the verge of a breakdown after nearly four years on the road, drinking and singing.

‘I used to drink before every performance,’ Florence revealed to Billboard a little over a year after she decided to give up alcohol.

‘I’m quite shy, really – that’s probably why I used to drink a lot. But I don’t anymore. When I finally took time off to make this new record, I had time to strengthen.’ 

When Florence turned 27 her mother Evelyn made a speech at her birthday party and asked her daughter’s pals to make sure she did not wind up in the ’27 Club.’

The ’27 Club’ is a group of celebrities who all died at the age of 27, many of substance-related causes including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse.

Not long after she turned 27 she decided to sober up and eventually came to regard her drinking days with ‘with a mix of nostalgia and terror.’

In an essay for British Vogue in 2019 she wrote candidly: ‘There’s a part of me that is in awe of that girl, her total disregard for self-preservation, how she could run at the world headfirst, eyes closed, with no care for the consequences.’

She added: ‘But I also want to hold her in my arms, say: “It’s OK, you’re OK, you can come down now. You’ve been screaming at the top of that tree for a bit too long.”‘

Florence recalled: ‘I have certainly had journalists bemoan to me “the lack of rock stars behaving like rock stars,” but hedonism never gave me the freedom I desired. And I’m no longer sure about the rock ‘n’ roll behavior often expected of artists.’

She pointed out: ‘Too many talented people have died, and the world feels too fragile to be swigging champagne and flicking the finger at it.’ 

Florence Welch fired up her Instagram page this Tuesday to celebrate the fact that ‘I am 7 years sober today.’

She wrote: ‘I send my love and support to anyone who is struggling. If you are feeling shaky around ED issues, drugs or alcohol, I completely understand.’

The 34-year-old singer added: ‘The desire to disassociate is so strong. But please don’t give up. We are going to need you on the other side.’

Her post included a picture of her hand touching a painting of the number 7 surrounded by a heart with two arrows in it. 

Florence, who became a star with her band Florence And The Machine in 2009, has been candid about the hard-drinking lifestyle she kept up early in her career.

The Kiss With A Fist singer went on the wagon early in 2014 and released her next album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful the following year.

Prior to getting sober Florence found herself on the verge of a breakdown after nearly four years on the road, drinking and singing.

‘I used to drink before every performance,’ Florence revealed to Billboard a little over a year after she decided to give up alcohol.

‘I’m quite shy, really – that’s probably why I used to drink a lot. But I don’t anymore. When I finally took time off to make this new record, I had time to strengthen.’ 

When Florence turned 27 her mother Evelyn made a speech at her birthday party and asked her daughter’s pals to make sure she did not wind up in the ’27 Club.’

The ’27 Club’ is a group of celebrities who all died at the age of 27, many of substance-related causes including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse.

Not long after she turned 27 she decided to sober up and eventually came to regard her drinking days with ‘with a mix of nostalgia and terror.’

In an essay for British Vogue in 2019 she wrote candidly: ‘There’s a part of me that is in awe of that girl, her total disregard for self-preservation, how she could run at the world headfirst, eyes closed, with no care for the consequences.’

She added: ‘But I also want to hold her in my arms, say: “It’s OK, you’re OK, you can come down now. You’ve been screaming at the top of that tree for a bit too long.”‘

Florence recalled: ‘I have certainly had journalists bemoan to me “the lack of rock stars behaving like rock stars,” but hedonism never gave me the freedom I desired. And I’m no longer sure about the rock ‘n’ roll behavior often expected of artists.’

She pointed out: ‘Too many talented people have died, and the world feels too fragile to be swigging champagne and flicking the finger at it.’