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Vicky Pattison feared she would ‘go the same way’ as her father and become an alcoholic -Kim Novak-Entertainment – Metro
She still has a ‘complicated’ relationship with alcohol.
Vicky Pattison feared alcoholism would run in the family (Picture: Getty/REX/Anthony Stanley/WENN.com)
Vicky Pattison has revealed she feared becoming an alcoholic after spending her 20s drinking excessively, leading her to believe she would follow the same path as her father, John.
The former Geordie Shore star, 34, opened up about her own relationship with alcohol ahead of the release of her Channel 4 documentary, titled Vicky Pattison: My Dad, Alcohol and Me.
Vicky, who found fame on the reality show where she was often seen drinking to excess on nights out, admitted she didn’t want to emulate her father’s behaviour but had experienced times in her life when she was ‘exactly like him’.
She admits to feeling ‘sick to her stomach’ watching old clips of herself on Geordie Shore, as she ‘didn’t like who [alcohol] made [her] become’.
Vicky told The Times Magazine: ‘I believed I was my father’s daughter, so it was going to happen sooner or later and didn’t really matter when.
‘Loads of people on the show had a really nice time and became funny and silly and then stopped. That was never me. I don’t have an off switch and I was never a nice drunk.’
Vicky spent her twenties drinking excessively and still has a ‘complicated’ relationship with alcohol (Picture: Dave Benett/Getty Images)
She added that she ‘did not blame’ the producers but didn’t have the skills to ‘navigate being surrounded by that much alcohol’ when she was just 22.
Vicky was arrested in 2013 after throwing a shoe in a bar, which injured a woman and a staff member, which led to her being suspended from Geordie Shore and feeling suicidal. She later returned to the show for two more series before quitting for good in 2014.
She hopes that her documentary will ‘bring more sunlight to alcoholism and breakdown the stigma surrounding it’ after growing up thinking it was ‘normal’ after seeing her father go through the same issue.
Her father John had battled alcoholism (Picture: Anthony Stanley/WENN.com)
Vicky explained: ‘I didn’t want to be like him. But at points, I’ve been exactly like him. The idea that alcoholism was some kind of gene frightened me and made me think I had no option but to go the same way. I saw I needed to take steps to change things.’
Becoming a mother is something Vicky, who is engaged to Ercan Ramadan, wants to do in the future, having previously feared having children in case she left them ‘broken’ like she had been.
She explained: ‘The real reason was because I had all my dad’s issues and hang-ups and addictions, and I was so frightened my children would end up like me: broken.’
Vicky still describes her relationship with alcohol as ‘complicated’ but says while her dad ‘never wanted anything more than a drink’, she does want things and is adamant she will have a better life that the ‘dark alternative’ she was convinced she was destined to follow.
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