Sad: This Mum-of-two Drank Herself to Death

A widower has revealed the heartache of his young children’s first Christmas without their mum who drank herself to death, downing vodka for breakfast and five bottles of wine a day.

Vicky White fought a 25 year battle with alcoholism, sometimes drinking 330 units of booze a week despite repeated warnings from health experts.

The 38-year-old, who had previously beaten the bottle in 2012, suffered a relapse during last summer which proved fatal as her kidney failed and she slipped into a deadly coma.

Now boyfriend Steve Hough has detailed his partner’s devastating battle against her addiction to deter others from experiencing a similar tragic fate.

Vicky’s children Jack, 17, and Mia, 7, last week marked the festive period for the first time without their mum.

When she was taken to hospital, hugely bloated at 18 stone, 22 firefighters were needed to carry her outside, with the banisters and back door removed to give her room to be rescued.

Steve, 43, said: “Like every family with young children, we always loved Christmas. But this year, our first without her, was hard. All Mia wanted for Christmas was to have her mum back again.”

Vicky, from Liverpool, managed to stop boozing several times, but repeatedly fell off the wagon, starting to drink again for two weeks before her death in July.

Steve said: “Vicky didn’t want to drink and she tried so hard to stop, but it just controlled her. She became a different person. My heart breaks for the kids. It took days for me to find the courage to tell Mia that her mummy is an angel in the sky and she was sobbing. I just want Vicky’s story to be a lesson for others.”

When Vicky was admitted to hospital, her illness was so bad she couldn’t recognise her boyfriend.

The mum was so dependant on alcohol, a habit which started with bottles down in the park when she was 13, that she drank two bottles of cider before Jack’s Holy Communion ceremony.

The boozing became so regular that her skin and eyes turned yellow and people assumed she was pregnant because she had ballooned in size.

In 2011, during one near-miss, medics drained nine gallons of fluid, 42 litre bottles-worth of Coke, from her organs, leaving her five stone lighter, with warnings that just one more drink could kill her.

Mr Hough said: “I feel absolutely lost. I didn’t know how to help Vicky when she was alive, and I certainly don’t know how to carry on now she has gone. Our first Christmas without her was very tough. All I tried to do was give the kids the best Christmas I could.”

Source: mirror.co.uk