I downed 3 bottles of wine a DAY after my kids were born – I had spasms so bad doctors thought I had MS
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TOASTING New Year with her family and friends, Anna Roberts raised her glass of elderflower cordial with a smile. Though she was surrounded by Prosecco and lager, she’d never felt happier to be sober. For 2025 marks a third year free from alcohol for the mum of two – an addiction which almost killed her.
![[Anna Roberts, seen with her husband Richard, has been sober for three years]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/15b26523-6ec8-4fd1-b11a-2d82e5541f4d.jpg?strip=all&w=625)
Anna, 29, from Rhondda, South Wales, says: “People associate the festive season with alcohol, and so I was prepared for the challenge. “But I had a lovely time, it was very relaxed and though I had the odd craving, it passed very quickly. “I feel really proud that I’ve managed another year sober.”.
![[She had been drinking three bottles of wine a day]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ebfd5c30-a076-4248-8818-57b750228414.jpg?strip=all&w=486)
Struggling to cope with post-natal depression after the birth of her first baby, Anna, mum to Ewan, ten, and Evie, eight, began using alcohol to self-medicate. She began secretly drinking, falling into debt, worrying her husband would leave and her children would be taken away. She developed such serious spasms that doctors suspected she had Multiple Sclerosis.
![[Anna struggled after the birth of her son Ewan and relied on alcohol]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Ewan-Screenshot_2023-09-27-13-55-43-53_1c337646f29875672b5a61192b9010f9jpg-JS872176203.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
When her illness was at its worst, Anna was drinking three bottles of a wine a day, equivalent to 126 small glasses a week, and hiding her empties in the garden. But after Christmas 2021, Anna bravely asked for help, and following a detox that same summer, she has been celebrating being sober ever since.
![[Anna says that she's realised that alcohol only ever made things worse]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/i-spasms-bad-doctors-thought-960759993.jpg?strip=all&w=808)
