Trinny Woodall has mirrored on her life earlier than fame and her wrestle to beat a drug habit in her early 20s.
The previous What Not To Put on host is now a profitable magnificence mogul however revealed she is definitely ‘relieved to be alive’.
Trinny, 61, struggled with substance abuse after leaving boarding college at 16, escaping her shyness via alcohol.
Drug use quickly adopted, and by 21, she was in rehab, solely to be thrown out after a month for a prank on April Idiot’s Day.
Regardless of going to AA conferences, Trinny started utilizing once more for one more 5 years earlier than one remaining two-day binge sparked her return to rehab.
‘I had six buddies die in my first 12 months of restoration,’ she informed Girls’s Well being as the duvet star for his or her December concern.
She continued: ‘It’s tough trying again. If I hadn’t gone via it, I may not be the place I’m right this moment. We solely study after we’re challenged.’
When chatting with Steven Bartlett on his podcast Diary of a CEO two years in the past, she defined loneliness had been a driving consider her habit.
‘I missed my previous buddies, I noticed them after which I relapsed after which I went again to conferences and you then’re on this horrible little in-between place.’
After her final ever drink and drug binge, she and her three buddies made a pact to get sober, prompting her to return to rehab.
She crashed her automotive on the best way to the therapy facility, having been taking tranquilisers whereas driving.
Trinny spent a 12 months in rehab in addition to time dwelling in a midway home and again together with her dad and mom, rebuilding her life with out substance use.
Sadly, all three of her buddies from the pact died, with two overdosing and one dying from HIV-related pneumonia, though she was sober.
After getting clear, Trinny starred on What Not To Put on with Susannah Constantine and has grow to be identified for her skincare and make-up line, Trinny London.
Her private life continued to be positioned within the highlight, significantly when it got here to her relationships, together with with Johnny Elichaoff.
The pair acquired married in 1999, welcoming their daughter, Lyla, 4 years later, earlier than splitting in 2009.
Elichaoff took his personal life in 2014, falling from a parking lot roof after struggling for 20 years with an habit to painkillers.
On the 11 12 months anniversary of his dying on November 12, 2025, Trinny posted household footage collectively and wrote: ‘Eternally in our hearts ♥️ every year I miss you extra.’
She beforehand informed Fearne Cotton’s Pleased Place podcast: ‘The remorse of any individual who kills himself, it could actually take you into the darkest gap, however you may also know when any individual who’s in that scenario switches off, and that’s their path, and no one can get in. I needed to study.’
Lyla on the time ‘couldn’t fairly perceive’ her father’s dying however Trinny added that she ‘liked her dad’.
She then had a 10-year relationship with Charles Saatchi, six weeks after Nigella Lawson divorced him when footage of him strangling the chef got here to gentle.
The Dragon’s Den star informed Girls’s Well being she was targeted now on her life together with her daughter, ‘travelling and having dinner with individuals who fascinate me.’
‘If, alongside the best way, I meet somebody, nice, however my precedence isn’t, “I’ve so far”. When buddies ask, “Have you ever met somebody but?”.
‘I am going, ‘No, and I don’t actually give a s**t. By the best way, how’s your boring husband?”’
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