One for the Road: The Quit Drinking Podcast7 Helmi 2025

From Eating Shaving Foam in a Hospital Bed to 10 Years Sober: Oliver Mason's Story

A nurse found Oliver Mason in a hospital bed eating Gillette shaving foam. He'd read the label. He knew there was ethanol in it. The staff had taken his vodka away and his body was screaming for the drug.

That was the bottom. Before that came the panic attack on the Jubilee Line, sweating vodka through his pores, ducking into a corner shop phone booth to neck a bottle of Glen's. Before that came the one Soho whiskey that ended a full year of sobriety and kicked off three months of drinking around the clock. Before that came a Saturday morning kids' TV career that suddenly went quiet, a friend lost to a drink-driving accident, and 15 years of telling himself he was fine because he only drank at weekends.

Oliver is now ten years sober, married, working as an actor, running a podcast called School of Rockbottom, and helping others through the same rehab that saved him.

You'll hear about: the four layers of denial; what really happens in the year before someone relapses; the difference between heavy drinking and alcoholism; what 10 years sober looks like; why connection beats willpower every time.

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www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

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