‘I was as good as dead’: Fiona O’Loughlin opens up on her battles with alcohol

Fiona O’Loughlin was this week’s guest on ‘What Makes You Tick?’

Fiona O’Loughlin’s drinking has defined her life more than she would have liked, but it wasn’t until her 40s that the disease really began to take hold.

“It went hand-in-hand with stand-up comedy,” she told Neil Mitchell on What Makes You Tick?

“I loved a drink always but I had too many kids, and I hate hangovers.

“I guess I would have always ended up an alcoholic but stand-up … fast-tracked it.”

Before the drinking took hold Fiona fostered a total of 30 children, she did this largely to assuage her own sense of religious guilt she experienced growing up.

“I was a practicing Catholic at the time and savaged by guilt because I didn’t believe,” she said.

“Then I thought ‘you’re so terrible’ and really did believe on some level I was a wicked person because I didn’t know anything, I couldn’t learn anything.”

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