Rachel Forde
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Looking back now, isolation was detrimental for me.
Absolutely detrimental for me.
Oh, I was about 12 or 13.
I'm going to say 12 was when I first picked up a drink.
Do you remember where it was?
The IDA in Dublin Hill.
A two litre of cider.
Me and my friend, we went stop for stop on the two litre of Linden Village.
And I absolutely hated the taste of it.
Right.
And I'd say from my first drink to my very, very last drink up until today, it made me vomit.
drink always because I drank alcoholically from the get go you know I didn't know that then but like in hindsight I know that now I hated the taste of alcohol I never ever liked it really but I absolutely loved what it did for me Can you remember when you were 12 that night drinking the Linden Village with your friend a bit of a release or kind of a huge release like I remember you know when you get that little bit of a feeling going this is it
This is it.
This is what I've been missing.
I could talk to people.
I could laugh at people.
I thought I was funny.