'Yes, you can have a few pints because you're in your 20s. You can run it off and you can get on with it, but drinking is a young man's sport.'
Football er turned actor Vinnie Jones has opened up on his battle with alcohol and his mental struggles after finding love with a new woman.
After shooting to fame in 1986 when he was signed for Wimbledon, he had an incredible career playing for Leeds United, Sheffield, Chelsea and QPR, but he battled demons alongside his outward success. Dogged by alcoholism and mental health struggles, he says: "I was 19 or 20 before I even had a drink. But it didn't take long for addiction to take over. It's all rot. You're rotting from the inside out. I didn't talk about it to anybody.
In 1997 he was arrested for beating his neighbour drunkenly, and convicted of assault and criminal damage. The following year he bit late Mirror journalist Ted Oliver's nose down to the bone and in 2003 he was given community service for assaulting a passenger on a flight to Japan. Vinnie, who is now a successful actor and has starred in nearly 100 films, finally ended up quitting drinking after a series of attempts. But he says that opening up about his feelings is one thing that would have helped him earlier. "During my football career, I spent a lot of time in pubs. I went to the pub and played cards with the lads at two o'clock.
"I'm passionate about this" Vinnie explained. "My daughter came out six years ago. She's getting married in June to her girlfriend. We have a bit of a modern family. It's nice not to be a dinosaur." "You know, after four months, four years, five years, 10 years, you just keep moving forwards, the grief is always going to be in there," says the star of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. "It's how other things can control it. It's how much the flower can grow and and bloom."
But Vinnie, who was recently seen renovating his farm on Amazon TV series Vinnie Jones in The Country, adds: "Joely was texting me. Max was texting me and Guy texted me the whole time. They were saying 'you are missing out' and all that. But I am cool, I am in a really good place and I am fine." Instead, Vinnie candidly uses his own struggles to encourage them to reach out to others and 'talk more'. In new research 2,000 UK Football fans, conducted by Three UK, has shown two-thirds of football fans admit to struggling with mental health and 1-in-3 have never spoken about it."
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