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Sept. 6, 2025 – Lulu opened up about how she hid her alcoholism from the world after admitting this week she was a ‘secret drinker’ for years and believes she inherited the gene.
The singer, 76, who is now in recovery and attended rehab, made the admission in an interview with The Times ahead of the release of her memoir, If Only You Knew, which she said she needed therapy after writing. During the bombshell interview, Lulu told the publication: ‘I was a secret drinker. I think I always wanted to be Miss Perfect, the ‘best Lulu’, and I was terrified of being like my father. ‘For 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.’
But in past interviews, Lulu hinted at how she kept that part of her life out of the spotlight and always appeared polished and perfect in public.
She told how she always put her career first and was instructed by her mother from an early age not to ‘air her dirty linen in public’, perhaps suggesting why her addiction battle has remained secret until now.
