Vicky Pattison

Vicky Pattison has opened up about her "broken" childhood in an emotional interview on This Morning. The reality TV star, talking to Vernon Kay and Rochelle ...

During the Channel 4 documentary, which airs on Tuesday (August 2), Vicky opens up about her father, John's, turbulent relationship with alcohol. I was in my late twenties before I said it out loud and then, it was even later than that where I looked at my own complicated relationship with alcohol." "It would be dead easy for me to blame my complicated relationship with alcohol on Geordie Shore but that wouldn’t be true," said Vicky, who appeared on the MTV reality show between 2011 and 2014.

Vicky Pattison struggled to hold back her tears as she talked about reasons she has avoided motherhood.

"I think for years I was ashamed of my dad's illness and felt like I couldn't tell anyone. "I feel a responsibility to break that stigma. It's far more honest to say I had existing issues.

In Vicky Pattison: Alcohol, Dad and Me, the former Geordie Shore star worried that her father's drinking would run in the family.

“Pun intended.” You’d be hard-hearted not to wish her well. She was optimistic about John’s prospects and making progress with her own self-control. He spoke about his alcoholism in the past sense and was evasive about his relapses. “Drunken me makes a lot of trouble for sober me,” she said. He’d always been “the life and soul of the party” but managed to function. After John retired from the civil service, his problem escalated until he was swigging vodka every morning and was hospitalised with cirrhosis of the liver.

Vicky Pattison held back the tears after fearing her children would be 'broken' after sharing her struggles with alcoholism.

‘But there is also a huge element of it that we can control if you get to it fast enough, and you have the right resources around you.’ ‘Over the years I’ve had every excuse for not having kids, it was hiding this feeling that I was going to have children that felt some way broken a little bit like me,’ she told presenters Vernon Kay and Rochelle Humes. During Tuesday’s This Morning, Vicky, 34, revealed one of the reasons why she was hesitant to start a family was due to potential genetic alcoholism.

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The ex-Geordie Shore star explored her father's alcoholism and asked just how much it had influenced her own relationship with drinking.

Supported by psychologist Dr Becky Spelman, Pattison explained to John how his drinking had affected her in the past, and how she feared it would impact her future. Motivated by conversations with Amy and Maria, young women whose alcoholic fathers had died, she was determined to be honest with her dad while she still had the chance. The Pattisons offered a generous glimpse into a struggle that spans generations and acres of moral grey. Investigating the extent to which her own destructive drinking patterns had been informed by his, Pattison wanted to know whether she too was condemned to a life of addiction. Now aged 34, happy and settled with fiancé Ercan Ramadan, Pattison was determined to stride into the next chapter of her life having dealt with her past. “I’m a glass-half-full kind of girl,” Vicky laughed, “pun intended.” Coming across as resourceful and resilient as well as charismatic, she made us feel optimistic about her future – and while John’s felt less certain, there was no doubt that he had an unconditional ally in his daughter.

The reality star offers an emotional insight into growing up with a parent impacted by alcoholism.

Ironically, in a bid to feel more in control and to cope with the situations they find themselves in, their drinking can then become out of control. “It can be quite a lonely place can’t it,” says one of the women. “It’s a very genuine concern because women are meant to want kids more than anything – certainly far more than a glass of wine. Vicky loves a night out with friends, but sometimes the drinking can run away with her. You can see how much pain and worry his relationship with booze is causing her – and it’s very much like the roles between them have reversed. The pair are taking part in an exercise to improve their communication and for Vicky, it proves to be the perfect setting to really get things off her chest.

The Geordie Shore reality TV star is a commanding, charismatic, honest and articulate presenter, as she tries to make sense of how her father's drinking ...

She seems to get genuine insight out of the sessions she has with experts and the people she meets who have been through some of the same experiences as she has. “Fuckin’ take your own advice,” she says, with furious pleading in her voice, when he recommends she try to take control of her own drinking. And: “If you’re fucking lucky,” she responds through tears when he warns her that he may still be making the same futile promises to her in 10 years’ time. He is now 63, has cirrhosis of the liver and – brief periods of sobriety aside – is still drinking, despite various forms of therapy, including AA. What follows in her Channel 4 documentary, Alcohol, Dad and Me, is a deeply personal, very moving untangling of the part booze played in her upbringing. Vicky Pattison is a reality television star who first made her name in Geordie Shore 12 years ago at the age of 23, and the daughter of an alcoholic father.

The former Geordie Shore star, 34, broke into a sweat when she watched old footage of herself drunk on the programme.

But he's exactly what I need, he provides me with a sense of calm.' I wish you both well on your journey.' Well done Vicky xxxx'. One Twitter user wrote: 'Just watched Vicky Pattison documentary. Emotional: Vicky Pattison brought viewers to tears as she discussed her relationship with drinking in the Channel 4 documentary Alcohol, Dad And Me Vicky Pattison brought viewers to tears as she discussed her relationship with drinking in the Channel 4 documentary Alcohol, Dad And Me.

Vicky Pattison sobbed to her dad over fears he won't live to see her future children before giving him an ultimatum about his drinking.

Best wishes to you and your Dad,’ another person said. The former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! winner shared that she was ‘disappointed’ that her dad couldn’t agree to quit alcohol completely – but promised to be with him ‘every step of the way’ if he promises to look into different forms of tackling his anxiety. Vicky Pattison broke down in tears while admitting to her dad that she feared he might not survive his alcoholism, as she shared how much she wants to have children in the future.

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“I’ve grown up a lot and I do, I think it’s a huge transitional period for anyone between your early 20s to your early 30s, but I did my growing up in the public eye, which forces you to grow up like a lot faster, so, no, there’s real elements of myself and who I was then, or at least who I was becoming, that I’m really not proud of.” Asked about watching old footage of herself from all those years ago, she told BBC Breakfast: “There’s a clip in the doc where I actually sit down and watch some bits of Geordie Shore, and I found it really painful – and that’s not just, like, the fashion choices, my behaviour as well. Speaking on BBC Breakfast, she said: “Everybody will probably assume they know all there is to know about me – like, 12 years in the industry, I’m hardly what you would call shy, my whole life on Instagram – but this was pivotal, this was different, it wasn’t so much just honest as it was raw, and hard, it was really difficult.”