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06th Nov 2019

‘Transformed his life’ Vogue Williams applauds Spencer Matthews for reaching 18 months sobriety

Jade Hayden

“Gone are the anxious hangovers.”

Vogue Williams has applauded Spencer Matthews for reaching 18 months of sobriety.

The model and TV personality shared a touching post on her Instagram page this week, detailing her husband’s achievement – and earnestly announcing the launch of his latest business venture.

“So unbelievably proud of my husband and best friend Spencer Matthews,” she wrote.

“He has always been incredible to me but to watch how he’s transformed his life over the last 18 months has made me love and admire him even more.

“Since becoming sober he’s been working on his own project, the @cleanliquor company. I truly believe that the way we drink is changing and @cleanliquor is going to make a massive difference to so many peoples lives including my own.”

 

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Vogue finished her post by encouraging her audience to give Spencer’s new drink venture a follow.

“Gone are the anxious hangovers but the enjoyment of a drink is still possible!” she said.

Spencer recently said that his relationship with alcoholic had become “destructive” and that he eventually decided to give up drinking before he became a father.

“Sobriety is a lifestyle choice I made a few months before becoming a dad,” he said earlier this week.

“In the back of my mind for many years, I had always felt that my relationship with alcohol, although seemingly harmless was unhealthy and somewhat destructive.

“Drinking lead me to make poor decisions and achieving my full potential was slipping away.”

 

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Spencer added that he would give up alcohol for periods of time, but that his “reward” always ended up being more drink.

“I had to change my relationship with alcohol in order to become the man that I knew I could be and that my family would be proud of,” he said.

“Sobriety has opened my mind and unlocked parts of me that I didn’t even realise existed.

“I am more ambitious and hard working now than I have ever been and there has been a serious shift in my priorities and what’s important to me.”

Clean Liquor is due to launch on November 12.