Richard Bacon has revealed an addiction to alcohol and said he "came close to losing everything".
The former Blue Peter presenter, 43, shared that he attended Alcoholics Anonymous after alcohol binges, which would see him "going missing" for entire evenings.
Richard, who was sacked from Blue Peter in 1998 for taking cocaine, said he has managed to kick his drug addiction with a stint in rehab.
However, he is not yet free of booze.
Speaking on the BBC 5 Live podcast, Hooked, Richard shared: "I do have the odd drink here and there. I try to manage it. It is probably delusional to think that is sustainable.
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"I’ve always been bad at learning from mistakes. I’ve been through periods where it’s been dangerous and I’ve gone missing for a night."
He continued: "That’s certainly not the place I’m in now, but I have come close to losing everything again and pushing things too far with my wife."
Richard then spoke about the impact his addiction has had on wife Rebecca MacFarlane, whom he shares a seven-year-old son an five-year-old daughter with.
Richard said: "We’ve done therapy together and we’ve had conversations where I thought, 'Oh God, is my whole marriage going to end?!"
Richard Bacon thinks he's still addicted to alcohol and refuses to attend AA meetings
"She would like me to do AA all the time and I just don’t. But I have said I will spend more time with our therapist examining my relationship to drink.
"We’re in a good place at the moment but once you have accepted you’re an addict to some degree the danger is always there, isn’t it?"
Last year, Richard was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 42.
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He said if he'd been diagnosed earlier, he wouldn't have taken cocaine, which saw him lose his job on Blue Peter.
Richard told The Sun: "If I’d have been diagnosed in my twenties the cocaine debacle wouldn’t have happened.
"But now I can change and be a good father and a good husband."
- BBC
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