Food writer Jack Monroe has admitted shes an alcoholic but is currently in recovery as she penned an emotional article.
The 30-year-old wrote: My name is Jack Monroe, and I am an alcoholic. I said those words out loud to myself 10 days ago, waking up after yet another binge with a friend, watching Richard Curtis films until 4am, mixing cocktails and bitching about work until we passed out on the sofa.
Jack, who identifies as non-binary, went on to describe how her relationship with alcohol began at age 14. However, the relationship didnt turn problematic until 2014.
I had my first book out, my second on the way, and had been uncomfortably catapulted into the public eye, she wrote in the Guardian article.
It started with a glass of wine in the evenings. Every evening. Then two. Then a bottle. Then I started at lunchtime. I had a drink before I did any public talks, to calm my nerves.
Happy new year everyone from my sober grinning face! (Am very pleased with my very obviously greying hair, btw, going to grow old disgracefully!) pic.twitter.com/D5ECzFLQmx
— Jack Monroe (@BootstrapCook) December 31, 2018
Describing the article as her mea culpa, Jack apologised for a multitude of mistakes including missing her sons assemblies, handing in a late manuscript, and ghosting editors.
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Explaining that shes been sober for a week she revealed the change has been remarkable as she starts her road to recovery.
However, it hasnt all been smooth sailing as she admitted shes almost picked up a drink countless times.
This is my mea culpa, she finishes. This is a new beginning. My name is Jack Monroe. Im an alcoholic. And I am recovering, one day at a time.
The admission comes just a couple of months after Jack announced her upcoming book, Tin Can Cook.
Jack said its partly for [the] food bank user and the work I do with people in poverty, partly as a post-Brexit cookbook, and partly as a tongue-in-cheek fuck you to food snobbery and elitism.
Ive been writing recipes from tins for around six years now; and it is frequently met with amusement and disdain from my peers, she told The Bookseller.
But Im fascinated by our relationships with tinned food, and what those tins say about us. Our abilities, our fears, our emergencies, and our comfort zones.
Consider us intrigued.
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