John Robbins

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On The Mend · The Night John Robins Knew He Had to Quit Drinking · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

I don't know, a wizard or something, whatever kid that I was thinking about at the time.

And then maybe a year after that, we were at another friend of hers and he'd poured a glass of wine.

I don't think my mom had had any.

And I just remember we were sat watching a film in the afternoon and I just remember knowing that the bottle of wine was in the kitchen.

And I just couldn't stop thinking about it.

And I, I said, I'm going to the, I'm just going to the loo.

And I walked past the toilet into the kitchen and I just picked up the bottle and, and took a swig and then poured some and then mixed it with orange juice.

And then my mum's behind me and was like, what the hell are you doing?

You know, and these things only really came back to me when I was writing the book.

And I was able to see them, because a lot of people have stories like that, right?

You know, kids have sips of beer and sips of wine and parents go, you can have that, I'll put a bit of lemonade in it, whatever.

It's very normal.

But I was able to kind of see them through the lens of what I'd learned about alcoholism.

And I was like, that seven-year-old...

was beginning to obsess about something.

And he was also looking for a way of changing how he felt.

And he also hid his drinking.

He lied about it.

He concealed it.

And I don't, it's not said with any blame or, you know, nothing but compassion for that seven-year-old.

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