A HEROINE FOR OUR TIME –
April 20, 2026 – ‘I had woken up, as often happened, with no memory of the night before. I was in the middle of a huge theatre tour,’ she said.
‘Then I looked around and realised that my husband – then boyfriend – was watching me and he threw a newspaper on the bed.’ The front page showed a paparazzi photo of her …‘leaning over the bonnet of a car shouting at someone and pointing’ – an incident she had no recollection of. ‘The bathroom door of his flat had been pulled off its hinges and a lamp lay on the floor,’ she added.
Lincoln had stopped drinking a couple of months earlier. ‘I had told him I didn’t have as big a problem. I did – a huge one,’ she said. ‘He told me he loved me but he couldn’t live like this. The thought of losing him terrified me. I was depressed, anxious, scared, embarrassed, appalled at my behaviour and full of shame.
‘I gave up drinking that night. It is the best decision I have ever made.’
