Vogue Williams has admitted she would have left her husband Spencer Matthews if he had carried on drinking.
The couple met on the reality show The Jump, and at the beginning of their romance, they would frequently go out partying together.
The happy couple now share three children: Theodore, 5, Gigi, 3, and Otto, 2.
Speaking on the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast, the mother-of-three confessed that she would have broken off her relationship with Spencer if he carried on drinking.
She revealed: “I think the way he was drinking yeah definitely. Because with my dad and stuff like although he was a heavy drinker, he wasn’t a drinker.”
“He wouldn’t wake up in the morning and drink, but I’d know where he was at five o’clock at night, he’d always be in the pub every single day without fail.”
She also discussed how “Spencer achieved so much more” once he quit the booze.
She confessed: “He was watching me working and I was kind of getting really cool jobs and doing better things and he was just kind of not being very productive.”
“Then he decided himself to give up drinking and as soon as he did that he just achieved so much more and his career has completely changed since he did that.”
“His life has completely changed, and he’s gotten himself to a point now where he can have the odd drink sometimes and I think it’s quite helpful that I don’t want to drink all the time we never have drink in the house.”
“That’s not because we’re scared we will drink it, we just never want it.”
“So he did that for himself and I think that was quite an amazing thing to do.”
Speaking on The DailyMail’s Everything I Know About Me podcast, Spencer admitted: “There was a certainty that I would lose Vogue if I carried on drinking the way I was drinking.”
Spencer, speaking about Vogue, continued: “She won’t mind me saying she’s a bit of a binge drinker. She actually hates alcohol, she can’t stand being hungover.”
“She doesn’t like the taste of booze, but she’ll drink to get drunk. Back then she would drink to get drunk every few days. Now, it’s once a month type of thing.”
“On the days off, I would drink and she wouldn’t. And then she would get back on the horse. And then when she stopped, I carried on and it was every day, and she would draw attention to it,” he confessed.
When the mother-of-three fell pregnant with the couple’s first child, Theodore, Spencer said: “My drinking was emphasised by the fact that she wasn’t drinking.”
“There was a general level of disappointment in her about me. Which felt s**t, right, because I’ve always wanted people who are close to me to be proud of me.”
“I was beginning to feel like a real loser. She would do these great things and travel while she was pregnant, and land these TV jobs and present these documentaries. And I’d be at home.”
Spencer recalled the turning point when he told Vogue he was going to quit after one night in 2017.
At the time he drank nearly a full bottle of whiskey and got into bed with Vogue, telling her he was going to quit.
He confessed: “She didn’t really believe me, and neither did anybody else. I didn’t drink for three and a half years, just stopped.”
Spencer went on to launch his own low-alcohol brand The Clean Liquor Company in 2019, which has been hugely successful.
