{"id":401767,"date":"2025-09-06T04:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401767\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T04:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:45:16","slug":"lulu-admits-im-in-recovery-after-sharing-her-secret-alcohol-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401767\/","title":{"rendered":"Lulu admits ‘I’m in recovery’ after sharing her secret alcohol addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

She shared that she has “carried so much shame” about her parents actions\"LuluLulu has admitted she has “carried so much shame” from her parents(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

Scottish singer-songwriter Lulu has revealed she is “in recovery” from her secret alcohol addiction, but that she has “never been happier”.<\/p>\n

The 76-year-old singer has admitted she battled alcoholism for years but after finally giving up drinking, she has \u201cnever been happier in life\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lulu, full name Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, told The Times newspaper: \u201cI was a secret drinker. I think I always wanted to be Miss Perfect, the \u2018best Lulu’, and I was terrified of being like my father.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor years, I made a choice not to talk about [my alcoholism] publicly. I chose to wait until I had the language to understand it before I could start spouting off.<\/p>\n

\"LuluShe said she wanted to wait until she had the language to understand her alcoholism before speaking publicly about it(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve learnt a lot from other people, their memoirs, and self-help books too, so maybe I can be of some help now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lulu believes her drinking was \u201ccontrollable\u201d until she reached her sixties and her son Jordan Frieda, now 48, left home.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cFor me, it had been controllable until I got into my sixties.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter I became menopausal, with both my parents gone, the empty nest, looking around and seeing all the young kids in the music industry, I became more and more reliant on it and so it just got worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor many years, and I can\u2019t say how many, I had not been happy with the way I felt, not at all happy and [yet] unable to ask for help.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, Lulu firmly believes it is an inherited disease, calling her parents \u201cdamaged\u201d, and admitting she has \u201ccarried so much shame\u201d about their actions.<\/p>\n

\"LuluLulu described her alcoholism as a “family illness”(Image: Carl Sukonik | The Vain Photography)<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cIt\u2019s a family illness. The gene is there.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u2018The thing about drink is that you become the worst part of who you really are. You can be happy and singing and having fun, but that doesn\u2019t last.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you keep drinking, you can become morose. We can become angry. I worked so hard to understand this. I finally understood it\u2019s an illness that messes with everything.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I know it sounds perverse, but I\u2019m glad I\u2019m an alcoholic and that I\u2019m in recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She shared that she has “carried so much shame” about her parents actionsLulu has admitted she has “carried…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,378,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-401767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-in-the-news","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115155535463428165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}