Earlier this year, Andrew Lloyd Webber made the confession of his life: he was an alcoholic. So pronounced had his drinking become – endless bottles of wine, counting down the minutes in the morning until he was able to have a drink – that he decided he needed help.
‘You think it’s secret, but it’s not,’ the 78-year-old theatrical legend told an interviewer in April.
‘Everybody knows. I started getting into a downhill spiral and about 18 months ago the family were in a desperate state. My wife was feeling she couldn’t go on.’
And so he took action: rehab, AA, sponsors, auctioning
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