Mother-Of-Two Drank Herself To Death On Five Bottles Of Wine A Day And Vodka For Breakfast
A 38-year-old mother-of-two from Britain reportedly drank herself to death, after consuming roughly 330 units of alcohol a week, including vodka for breakfast and five bottles of wine a day.
The mother, Vicky White, finally succumbed to liver failure following more than two-and-a-half decades of battling with her alcohol addiction.
For the late woman’s partner, Steve Hough, alcohol was a stark reminder of a missing face at the Christmas dinner table this year.
Mr. Hough, 43, told reporters, and per a Daily Mail article from today, regarding the tragic passing of Vicky White.
“Vicky didn’t want to drink and she tried so hard to stop, but it just controlled her. She became a different person. She didn’t have alcohol secretly stashed around the house – and there was no pattern to her drinking other than she would just hammer it for five or six hours at a time. She started drinking again two weeks before she died and she refused to take her medication. I knew from experience that trying to stop her would make her worse. Like every family with young children, we always loved Christmas. But this year, our first without her, was hard.”
Hough added that four days before her death, White was taken to hospital having become disorientated, but by the time she was admitted, she could no longer recognize him and was vomiting blood.
“I didn’t want the children to see her, but Jack (her son) insisted on visiting,” he said, adding that shortly after her son’s visit, Ms. White slipped into a coma and later died from liver failure.
Hough said about the effect of his partner’s death on the children, “My heart breaks for the kids. It took days for me to find the courage to tell Mia that her mummy is an angel in the sky and she was sobbing.”
Ms. White had been drinking heavily since her teenage years, and by 2011, came close to death after downing vodka for breakfast followed by five bottles of wine every day for an extended period.
