BBC star Harriet Tyce has been candid about her 34-year battle with alcohol and the way she misplaced 4 stone after quitting booze in 2022. The profitable crime author and former barrister was banished on The Traitors on Wednesday night following a tense showdown with under-the-radar Traitor Rachel Duffy. The 53-year-old was satisfied Rachel was certainly a Traitor, however the remainder of the contestants did not imagine the previous lawyer.
Harriet used her authorized profession as a weapon to showcase her skill to name out a Traitor, however she claimed to have been “a horrible barrister” resulting from her alcohol points in a 2024 article penned for The Observer. The author can be very candid about her restoration on Instagram, exhibiting transformation photos along with her followers after giving up booze.
Harriet stopped consuming on June 7, 2022, and stated in her first-person piece about alcohol: “I used to be systematically sabotaging myself, falling over in chambers in entrance of senior barristers and turning up late and hungover the subsequent day.
“I wasn’t sabotaging my work any extra, and apart from, I’d been a horrible barrister. Crime writing’s the type of job you’d count on a drinker to do. However alcohol nonetheless took up an excessive amount of house in my thoughts.”
She additionally acknowledged she needed to become involved with yoga, weight lifting and working in addition to “giving chilly swimming a go”.
Harriet described herself as an “advert” to ditch alcohol, and confirmed her followers a throwback snap of herself, saying she’d misplaced weight after packing it up.
Inside her piece for The Observer, she added: “I’m grateful every day that I’ve received out in time. Some days are tougher – I miss the great time me that saved necking it down pondering I’d dwell endlessly, however I’m so much happier now (and weigh 4 stone much less, which is so much simpler on my ageing knees!).”
Harriet has revealed three books thus far, with a brand new novel, Witch Trial, resulting from hit cabinets in March.
The Traitors continues tonight on BBC One at 8pm.
