I Was Addicted To Sleeping Pills And Alcohol - Sarah Harding

They say the first step to recovery is admitting the problem; and Sarah Harding has confessed she was addicted to sleeping pills.

The problem escalated beyond her control and she was forced to spend three weeks in rehab to wean herself off of Zopiclone and alcohol.

The Girls Aloud star, 30, suffered in silence for four years as she endured a journey of what she describes as 'going to hell and back'. Sarah told The Sun: 'My drinking was out of control and I was addicted to sleeping pills. It was an awful combination.'
She also alluded to tragic Amy Winehouse, who died last July after she was found with more than five times the legal drink-drive limit in her blood. Sarah says her problems began soon after finding success with the band: 'It was trying to maintain that f****** image that got me in all this trouble.'


Soon she was drinking a bottle of wine for breakfast, which resulted in erratic sleeping patterns and her love/hate affair with Zopiclone. Zopiclone is reportedly one of the prescription drugs found in Heath Ledger's home after he died from an overdose of prescription drugs.

When Sarah split from DJ fiance Tom Crane in September, her drinking became difficult to manage as she was 'isolated and depressed'. After realising she was on a downward spiral and going 'off the rails', she checked herself into a rehab clinic in Cape Town in October.

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