‘I was in the depths of alcoholism, then my son said two sentences that changed my life’

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Alex Clapp
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I love my son Marcus with my entire being, but there was a time when alcohol drove a divide between us. As an alcoholic, all you really care about is that bottle, and drinking was far more important to me than being a good dad.

Booze was always in my life. I grew up in an era when rules around alcohol were more relaxed. As young as 13, my brothers would be buying me pints in the pub. Then in my early 20s, I worked in the corporate world where it was a beer at 5pm, wine with dinner, a load more spirits and then shots somewhere at 3am.