Emmerdale star Lisa Riley revealed that she’s about to celebrate being nineyears sober.
The actress, best known for playing Mandy Dingle in the ITV soap, revealed on Thursday’s Lorraine that she hasn’t had a drink in nine years.
‘I’m going to be nine years sober,’ she told host Ranvir Singh.
‘I just stopped drinking for the good and better for me, I prefer me.
Ranvir asked: ‘What was it for you if you don’t mind me asking, that was like I don’t want to do this anymore?’
Lisa replied: ‘I was self medicating. I know that with alcohol. I wasn’t sleeping because I lost my mum, and I wasn’t coping very well.
‘A bottle and a half two bottles of Malbec helped completely in those times, I never thought that I’d be here now and I love it.’
Lisa first rocked up on our screens as the feisty but loveable character in 1995 before leaving the Dales six years later.
Thankfully she reprised her role in 2019 and has been on our screens ever since.
As for Lisa’s soap character Mandy, she has been doing the online job to raise extra cash after she found herself in financial difficulties in the run-up to her wedding to Paddy.
Despite being warned by Tracy Shankley (Amy Walsh) that she’s playing a dangerous game, Mandy insists that she’s putting her safety first and that she’ll give up the work as soon as she’s earned enough money to treat Paddy on their honeymoon.
It’s her hen do, but before Mandy can enjoy herself she has two more jobs to fit in. Bear has an appointment at the salon for a beard trim, and at the same time Mandy has to deal with another findom call.
Mandy gets a request from another client, and it’s an offer she can’t refuse.
’Someone’s offered her another £300,’ Lisa Riley told us. ‘She says “This £300 will pay for the meal for Paddy,” because they go back to Venice for their honeymoon. All she wants is to treat Paddy.’
Unfortunately for Mandy, this final client is someone she already knows well.
