‘Vic, fulfilling this role has been detrimental to your health. Your drinking is causing you anxiety and you’re suffering because of alcohol. Can you see that now?’ She was right. After all, I was getting therapy. Perhaps being a party girl wasn’t that cool? Party girls are just addicts with backstage passes, I thought. I realised then I didn’t need loud music and pumping basslines anymore. I just needed a cuddle and a cup of cocoa.