Abi Feltham was told last week she has 15 years to live – and she’s never been happier. You might know Abi, 36, from Instagram , where she has garnered 132,000 followers by sharing her journey with alcohol and drug addiction , giving her blunt, inspiring and endlessly funny life lessons her followers have grown to love her for. When she was 23, Abi moved to Thailand.
Here she sank into the darkest place of her life. She would drink every morning, afternoon and evening. Eventually she turned to drugs.
‘I was just completely suicidal and depressed. I started smoking crack because the alcohol stopped working. I didn’t care if I lived or died, I didn’t care about myself anymore.
I lost the will to live,’ she tells Metro.co.uk .
Abi’s father took his own life, and years later she tried to do the same. A psych ward didn’t help Abi but in 2020, 10 years after she first moved abroad, being wretched away from her ‘weird depression and addiction bubble’ when the pandemic hit, did. Back in her childhood home, sitting on her old bed surrounded by wine bottles Abi realised something must change.
Telling her mum she was ill, Abi went cold turkey from alcohol – which is definitely not advisable, and actually very dangerous – and eventually as she recovered began posting about her journey to sobriety on social media. But while Abi thought struggles with depression and substance abuse were her main fights in life, the last few weeks have proved her wrong. ‘It’s bee.
