Tonya Bardsley on Quitting Drinking, ADHD + the Cheshire Housewives Years

Tonya Bardsley starred in The Real Housewives of Cheshire for almost a decade. From the outside it looked like champagne, glamour and laughs. From the inside, she was self-medicating undiagnosed ADHD with alcohol, taking diazepam to sleep, on antidepressants she didn't need, and crying on her sofa on Christmas Day 2022 thinking her family would be better off without her.

She joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to talk about quitting drinking, four weeks of rehab in Thailand, and what life looks like one year on.

Tonya was painfully shy as a kid, bullied so badly at 13 she tried to take her own life, and used alcohol from her teens as a confidence drug. Add ADHD, perimenopause, and a TV career soaked in champagne, and the spiral was inevitable.

Inside: the breakdown, rehab, why she came off all the medications, and how her four kids are thriving.

Quitting drinking, ADHD, perimenopause, sober journey.

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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.

www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

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