Thursday, July 8, 2004
Five years ago, Tanya Gold was admitted to the Priory with a catastrophic alcohol problem...
I realised I was an alcoholic the day I mounted Brian Sewell. It was deepest lunchtime, one Tuesday in 1999, and I was working as a gossip columnist at the London Evening Standard. I was drinking vodka from a Pepsi can and writing about dog fashion shows. Then, out of the fractures of my brain, burst a "rock-bottom". I looked across the office and saw the art critic, sitting at his desk.
I decided to "take" Brian. I lunged, straddled him - and the newsroom gaped. As I was peeled off, a pale Sewell said, "If I was ever unsure I'm a homosexual, I'm not now," and I was dispatched to the Priory Hospital, a Victorian Gothic mansion just north of Richmond Park. With battlements, en-suite bedrooms and a jewellery shop, the loony-bin of tabloid lore looks like the Savoy spliced with Broadmoor. It costs £3,000 a week.
To find more about Tanya Gold and to see if Brian Sewell made it out alive, read [more»]
{a nod to - tmftml who notes most rehab stories are boring; this opening is interesting} Not only do I find it interesting, it's gutsy as hell. And a little too familiar. Believe it.
I realised I was an alcoholic the day I mounted Brian Sewell. It was deepest lunchtime, one Tuesday in 1999, and I was working as a gossip columnist at the London Evening Standard. I was drinking vodka from a Pepsi can and writing about dog fashion shows. Then, out of the fractures of my brain, burst a "rock-bottom". I looked across the office and saw the art critic, sitting at his desk.
I decided to "take" Brian. I lunged, straddled him - and the newsroom gaped. As I was peeled off, a pale Sewell said, "If I was ever unsure I'm a homosexual, I'm not now," and I was dispatched to the Priory Hospital, a Victorian Gothic mansion just north of Richmond Park. With battlements, en-suite bedrooms and a jewellery shop, the loony-bin of tabloid lore looks like the Savoy spliced with Broadmoor. It costs £3,000 a week.
To find more about Tanya Gold and to see if Brian Sewell made it out alive, read [more»]
{a nod to - tmftml who notes most rehab stories are boring; this opening is interesting} Not only do I find it interesting, it's gutsy as hell. And a little too familiar. Believe it.
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