Sarah Harding Speaks Honestly About her Issues With Alcohol

Sarah Harding from Girls Aloud has insisted that she never planned to give up alcohol completely, despite her much-publicised battle with booze in the past.

Last year the singer had a very tough time. First her engagement to long-term boyfriend Tom Crane fell apart and Sarah, who was devastated, ended up being checked into a rehab in South Africa in order to undergo detox and therapy.

However, Sarah is now insisting that she has overcome all her issues and is completely in control with regards to her relationship with alcohol.

“I’ve done a lot of healing, a lot of thinking,” said Sarah recently, speaking to Now Magazine.

“I’m eating really healthily and whilst I never said that I would be teetotal – and I do still enjoy a glass of wine socially with dinner or when I’m out with friends – I have reigned it right in,” she added.

Sarah admits that her stint in rehab really helped her to reassess her life and figure out what was really important to her.

“The treatment I’ve had has helped me see that being destructive is not the answer. I am very careful about when I drink and what my mood is like because I’ve learned so much about alcohol and depression,” she said.

Sarah with her Girls Aloud bandmates at the 2009 Brit Awards.

Sarah also said that seeing the Spice Girls performing at the Olympic Games Closing Ceremony made her nostalgic about her band, Girls Aloud, and made her think about the band’s upcoming 10-year anniversary.

“When I watched a clip of the Spice Girls on stage at the Olympic Closing Ceremony I did think, ‘I want that to be us!’” she said.

“We needed a break, time to do our own things, but now we’re starting to feel really nostalgic about the 10 years we’ve been a band and really, really want to mark it with something special,” she added.

We’re glad to see that Sarah is on the mend, but seriously, Girls Aloud have been around for 10 years?! We feel old…