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Jill Halfpenny reveals her secret battle with alcohol as she admits she would drink to 'escape' after struggling with the sudden death of her father


The actress, 48, who has been completely sober for over a decade, bravely detailed her alcoholism battle in her new memoir A Life Reimagined: My Journey of Hope in the Midst of Loss.

The actress, 48, who has been completely sober for over a decade, bravely detailed her alcoholism battle in her new memoir A Life Reimagined: My Journey of Hope in the Midst of Loss. The actress, who has been completely sober for over a decade, bravely detailed her alcoholism battle in her new memoir A Life Reimagined: My Journey of Hope in the Midst of Loss (pictured last week) The Byker Grove actress felt 'cursed' when she lost Matt in 2017 to a fatal heart attack that mirrored her father Colin's death four decades earlier.

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