We first met Trinny Woodall in the early '00s on her hit show What Not To Wear.
Trinny and her partner in crime, Susannah Constantine, transformed the way women looked and how they felt about themselves, and these days, she's the mastermind behind online beauty company Trinny London – not to mention mother of 19-year-old Lyla.
She's also proudly 30 years sober, after suffering from drug addiction in her younger years.
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In a new interview, the 57-year-old spoke openly to fellow entrepreneur Steven Bartlett on his Diary Of A CEO podcast about the effect addiction had on her life at just 16, as well as going to rehab for the first time.
"My family were very frustrated with me," she explained. "It was a relief to say you know, 'I use drugs' and I remember my dad saying, 'Now you’ve told me, you can stop.' I went to rehab and I then left the rehab."
Well... she was actually "kicked out", she admitted.
"I then went to meetings and there’s one thing about recovery – you need to let go of your old friends who you’ve been with when you’re using... loneliness can take you back to old habits," she continued.
"I missed my old friends, I saw them and then I relapsed and then I went back to meetings and then you're in this horrible little in-between place."
Woodall also shared about a time she encouraged three friends to join her on a trip to rehab so they would all get clean together.
"I had three really, really good friends and we were all using one night and I said, 'Let’s all make a pact that we go to rehab tomorrow,'" she recalled.
"Two of them had been and one of them had never been but we made this pact. The next morning I woke up and I still had that feeling, which is rare."
She found a clinic that would take her and that's where she stayed for five months.
"I sold what I had to pay for it. Some very tragic things happened in that time – one of the people died and I went to a halfway house... for seven months, where you kind of live off eight to 10 pounds a week, which pays for your [cigarettes], and I worked in an old people’s home. I came back to London a very different person."
But while Trinny maintained her sobriety, the three friends she encouraged to attend rehab with her all died within the span of just a few years.
"In that following year another friend died, then in another two years, they'd all died," she said on Diary Of A CEO.
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The beauty mogul also discussed her ex-husband Johnny Elichaoff's death in 2014, at the age of 55.
Woodall, who shared Lyla with her ex-husband, confessed it took her around eight years to grieve his death.
And it wasn't until their daughter moved out of home six months ago that the CEO finally allowed herself to mourn.
"We spoke every day on the phone. It took me a long time to grieve because he left a mess when he died, which I had to kind of deal with," she shared.
"So it preoccupies you to not then actually just think about what you miss in somebody. You're focused on what you've got to do, you go on to auto-pilot."
Lyla leaving home has changed how Woodall operates, she said.
"Probably oddly, I moved in March and that was the first time I remember Lyla went away, and it was the first time in 35 years I'd been on my own in the house. And I grieved for Johnny, all those years later," she explained.
"I suppose you need space. He died, there was a mess, then starting the business, I was living in a house I couldn't afford to live in, I had to sell it for lots of reasons, one of them for that reason," Woodall continued. "There were so many, sort of, fires I was dealing with — trying to guide Lyla to be okay.
"Sometimes in life, we know we're not strong enough to feel that feeling and move forward," she added.
"We have to be in the right situation and give ourselves that breathing space to feel the fullness of that feeling without judgement or guilt of remorse."
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