Patricia Heaton spoke about the embarrassing scene with her sons and their friends that made her decide to quit drinking three years ago.
"And my son at the end of the table says, 'Oh great, mom. You can’t even talk.' And I was so humiliated in front of my sons, and their friends," she continued."And God knows that that’s all it takes for me — for that kind of sense of their mom looking drunk in front of them.
Actor Patricia Heaton says a moment three years ago with her now adult sons, shown here as children in 2001, made her decide to stop drinking alcohol.Before that moment, Heaton had already seen herself potentially becoming an alcoholic"down the road." A day earlier, she already had been seriously thinking about quitting.
"That would make me around 73. So, I just thought, I need to have my brain ... It’s going anyway, I don’t want to add to it with the alcohol. So, I need to have my brain clean so I can be present if, God willing, I should get grandchildren in my 70s. And I also just felt like I am just drinking too much."She described how working on various shows kept her honest in her alcohol intake because she had long days on the set that began early in the morning.
"I just noticed that if it was 5:00 and I don’t have anything to do the next day, I would start drinking automatically," she recalled.
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