The former Atomic Kitten singer, 43, revealed her mother introduced her to drugs when she was a teenager by telling her speed was sherbet. She has now been clean for 14 years and says she “can’t sit with regret” or “hatred” about the past. 'For you to truly move on from the lessons you've learnt, you have to own them.
' discusses her past as she talks to and about having an operation to fix her nose, which was damaged after years of cocaine use. — Good Morning Britain (@GMB) Appearing on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Thursday, she said: “It started with my second marriage, my first marriage crumbled, I moved back over to England and if you lie down with dogs you get fleas. “I think cocaine kind of became my crutch, it was my best friend, it gave me the support I needed when I needed it.
” The singer explained she could go months without taking drugs, but whenever she started she would binge for a period. Reflecting on how she started taking drugs aged 14, she said her mother would give her speed, telling her it was sherbet. She added: “My mum wasn’t very well and it is what it is.
It’s happened. I can’t sit with regret, I can’t sit with hatred. I have to accept people for who they are.
“For a very long time, I lived in a pity party. ‘Poor me, the world owes me a favour. It’s everyone else’s fault but mine’.
“But I have to hold my hands up, I have to take responsibility, let it go because otherwise, (its) like being in a rocking chair, g.