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After Hours with Jimmy Thistle — 38 episodes

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I Was the Queen of Holistic Living — Coconut Oil, Soap Nuts, Natural Everything — & Alcohol Was the Elephant in the Room I Stepped Around for 15 Years

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I Was Sitting on My Couch Drinking Straight From a Tequila Bottle at 7pm & My Boyfriend Looked at Me & Said What Happened to You

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I Was Spending £2,000 a Day on Cocaine While Running a Bank — Sitting in a Car Park in Leeds Off My Head Trying to Manage My Team Through a Blackberry

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I Got the Job in 1997 Because I Could Out-Drink Everyone in the Interview — We Literally Didn't Hire People Who Turned Down the Third Shot

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My Dad Was Sober for 16 Months & I Had Him Back — Then My Granddad Died & He Relapsed Hard & Within Four Months He Was Gone

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I Lay Buried in Snow in Shorts for Two Hours & Five Minutes in the Scottish Highlands & Broke a Guinness World Record — Three Years Earlier I Was Rattling Outside a Health Centre

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People See My Tattoos & the First Thing They Do Is Offer Me a Drink or Drugs or Both — They've Got Me Completely Backwards

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I Grew Up Knowing If My Dad Had Four Cans in the Fridge Everything Would Be OK — But If He Went to the Pub With His Friends I Needed to Hide Under the Covers

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I Was Going Door to Door Around the Neighbours Asking If They Had Any Wine Left — That Was Where My Life Had Got To

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I Did a Thousand Day Ones Over 35 Years & the Furthest I Ever Got Was Day Six — Then I Worked Out the One Thing Everyone Gets Wrong About Quitting

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I Decorated the Entire Hospital Ward in Blood — The Doctor Came Back the Next Morning & Said You've Got a 20% Chance of Making It Through the Next Hour

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I Got Off the Plane & There Were Cops Waiting — Drug Trafficking Charges, Deported, Lifetime Ban From the US & That Was the Moment Something Finally Shifted

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I Was Drinking All Day Every Day in the Build-Up to Being Deployed to Iraq — I’d Wake Up in the Morning, Make Half a Cup of Coffee & Fill the Rest With Cointreau

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My Biggest Trigger Is Loneliness — Every Single Relapse Started the Same Way: Alone, a Cancelled Plan & a Bottle of Wine

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I Inherited £100,000 & Snorted & Drank the Whole Lot in 16 Months — Then Crashed a Van on Ketamine, Got Caught by Police & Sat in a Cell Crying for 18 Hours

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I Woke Up in a Stranger’s Bed With No Phone, No Idea How I Got There — My Friends Thought I Was Lying in a Ditch

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I Blacked Out Every Weekend for 15 Years & Thought That Was Normal | Simon’s Story

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My 9-Year-Old Daughter Said ‘I Don’t Like the Sound of Your Voice When You Drink’ — That Was My Wake-Up Call

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I Quit Drinking With Zero Support, No Apps, No Podcasts — And Nobody Even Noticed for Two Weeks

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I Was Hiding Bottles in My Car, Refilling Them So Nobody Would Notice — For 8 Years Nobody Did

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I Ran Marathons, Got Promoted, Had the Perfect Life on Paper — And Was Secretly Falling Apart Every Night

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I Had the Perfect Life — Beautiful House on the Beach, Successful Business, Gorgeous Kids — And I Was Dying Inside

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My Happy Place Was When My Whole Family Was Asleep So I Could Finally Drink Properly — And Nobody Knew

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She Started Sober Fish in 2016 When Nobody Was Talking About Sobriety Online — Now She Works From the Beach in Thailand

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I Set a Date to End My Life, Left Letters for My Wife & Kids — Then a Police Officer Put Her Arms Around Me and Everything Changed

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My Baby Was in the NICU — My First Thought Was ‘We’ve Got a Free Babysitter, Let’s Go Play Beer Pong

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Something Physically Held Me Down in That Car Seat — Five Seconds Later a Crash Sent Metal Flying Through the Seat Where I’d Have Been Sitting

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I Was So Drunk Walking Home at 3am I Fell Into a River — Clawed My Way Up the Embankment in My Going-Out Clothes & Carried On

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I Was One of the Top 100 Sexiest Women in the World — Secretly Dying Inside Every Night, Wishing I Could Go Home to My Mum

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I Was Kidnapped, Nearly Raped Twice & Found Myself in a Sex Trafficking Gang’s House — And I Still Didn’t Think I Had a Problem

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I Woke Up Alone in a Tuk-Tuk in the Middle of a Jungle With No Idea How I Got There — And Went Back Out the Next Night

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The Alcohol Industry Doesn’t Care About Moderate Drinkers — Their Biggest Customer Is the Person Who Can’t Stop

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I Was So Consumed With Getting My Next Drink I Couldn’t Enjoy Being in Sri Lanka — That’s When I Knew

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I Joined Bad Manners at 27 — Woke Up on the Tour Bus in America at 3am, Drank a Bottle of Tequila & Went Back to Sleep

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I Woke Up on a Plane to China With a Broken Elbow & No Memory — They’d Dragged Me to the Back for Refusing to Wear a Mask. I Was Blacked Out.

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I Went to an Alcohol Support Group & Told Them I Was Drinking a Bottle of Wine a Night — They Laughed & Said ‘You Don’t Have a Problem

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I Drove to the Airport Drunk at Midnight, Flew to Mallorca, Lost My Laptop & Camera in a Mugging — And Nobody Even Knew I’d Gone

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Season 3 - Teaser Trailer