Trinny Woodall sold all her belongings to pay for drug addiction treatment
Trinny Woodall revealed she once sold all her belongings in order to pay for one of her stints at a rehabilitation centre.
The 59-year-old was in her 20s when she entered into a residential treatment programme for the first time in hopes of treating her drug addiction. She revealed the programme had a confrontational approach and her stay ended early when she was caught watching pornography with the other patients.
While appearing on Steven Bartlett's Diary Of A CEO podcast, the TV stylist - who is now 30 years sober - said one of the approaches included having '20 people to critique how bad your life had been.' Trinny also discussed her several stints in rehab and how she finally got clean in her late 20s.
"I had three really good friends, and we were all using one night, and I said let's make a pact and go to rehab tomorrow. Two of them had been, and one of them had never been," she explained to the host. "The next morning I woke up and I still had that feeling, which is rare, so I called a therapist that I knew and I said I need to go but I have a window of opportunity that is so small, I need to go literally in the next two hours because I'm scared that I'll change my mind.
Trinny revealed she sold all her belongings in order to pay for rehab (Dave Benett/Getty Images)
She then went to live in a halfway house for seven months (S Meddle/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)"So he got me in somewhere, and I stayed for five months, and I sold what I had to pay for it." She revealed that some 'very tragic things' happened during that time and one of the people she knew passed away. She continued: "Then I went to a halfway house in Weston-super-Mare for seven months, where you kind of live off £8 to £10 a week, it pays for your fags, and I worked in an old people's home.
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"I came back to London a very different person, then in that following year another friend died, then in another two years they'd all died." During the same interview, Trinny talked about her ex-husband Johnny Elichaoff's tragic suicide. He died in November 2014 at the age of 55 after jumping from a shopping centre roof in Bayswater, west London.
Despite their split, the former couple, who share a 19-year-old daughter, Lyla, remained close and would still speak on the phone every day. As Lyla was only 11 when she lost her father, Trinny revealed she didn’t get to grieve for her former husband at the time. And it wasn’t until six months ago when Lyla left home and she was on her own again that what happened to Johnny really hit her.
*Frank offers confidential advice about drugs and addiction (email [email protected], message 82111 or call 0300 123 6600) or the NHS has information about getting help.
*If you're struggling and need to talk, the Samaritans operate a free helpline open 24/7 on 116 123. Alternatively, you can email [email protected] or visit their site to find your local branch.
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