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19 April 2026<\/time>\n <\/p>\nAndrew Lloyd Webber is a recovering alcoholic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nAndrew Lloyd Webber is a recovering alcoholic<\/p>\n\nThe 78-year-old legendary composer announced in 2016 that he hadn’t had a drink for two years, but he has now admitted that, while he stopped drinking while producing School of Rock on Broadway at that time, he secretly went back to alcohol afterwards and sought help just over a year ago.<\/p>\n\nHe admitted to The Sunday Times newspaper: \u201cI was doing what they call \u2018white-knuckling\u2019, without any back-up, and I started to worry that I wasn\u2019t being creative.<\/p>\n\n \u201cAnd I thought, \u2018But I\u2019ve said to everybody that I\u2019m not drinking.\u2019 So I started to drink secretly…<\/p>\n\n\u201cI am a recovering alcoholic. Sixteen months ago I decided that I needed help and it\u2019s the best thing that ever happened to me.\u201d <\/p>\n\nThe Cats composer admitted he went into a “downward spiral” in 2024 before getting sober and his family were deeply concerned.<\/p>\n\nHe recalled: \u201cYou think it\u2019s secret, but it\u2019s not. Everybody knows. I started getting into a downhill spiral and about 18 months ago the family were in a desperate state. My wife was feeling she couldn\u2019t go on.\u201d <\/p>\n\nWhile Andrew – who is married to Madeleine Gurdon, the mother of his three youngest children, and also has Imogen and the late Nicholas with first wife Sarah Hugill – checked into a clinic, it didn’t work for him, but it prompted him to visit an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting in Switzerland, and then others in the UK and he “adores” the sense of community he has found within the support groups.<\/p>\n\nHe said: \u201cPeople had always said, \u2018Oh no, you wouldn\u2019t like that.\u2019 And you get this thought that it\u2019s a load of meth drinkers coming in off the streets. Not at all. <\/p>\n\n“What I love about it is, you go into a room and everybody\u2019s equal. I\u2019ve made friends that I wouldn\u2019t have thought possible.\u201d <\/p>\n\nAndrew – who now attends a meeting every day – explained his turning point came when he heard someone else talking about the “stupidity” of addiction.<\/p>\n\nHe said: \u201cIt was about the ludicrous lengths you go to, the hiding and the pretending.\u201d <\/p>\n\nAnd he thinks he only developed a problem after declaring he was sober and started drinking in secret.<\/p>\n\nHe said: \u201cWhen you\u2019re a wine drinker, you don\u2019t think of yourself as\u2026 well, alcoholics drink spirits.<\/p>\n\n“That was the shocking thing for me, when I realised that I was drinking vodka to hide it.<\/p>\n\n“You don\u2019t really think. It\u2019s just, \u2018How am I going to get through the day?\u2019 I got that thing of seriously worrying that I wasn\u2019t writing, and panicked. \u2018Maybe I\u2019ll have a drink. OK, I\u2019ve written something.\u2019 Because it does slightly liberate you \u2014 but then it\u2019s more and more and more.\u201d <\/p>\n\nAndrew feels “lucky” that nothing went badly wrong when he was drinking and he’s embarrassed to think people may have avoided working with him because “word gets around”.<\/p>\n\nHe said: “I’m lucky that nothing did go very wrong. I haven\u2019t had some frightful accident. But then you begin to think of the near misses…<\/p>\n\n“I thought that I was getting away with it.<\/p>\n\n\u201cThe thing is, I am deeply sorry and I can only apologise to people if I made a mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"19 April 2026 Andrew Lloyd Webber is a recovering alcoholic. 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Andrew Lloyd Webber is a recovering alcoholic.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Andrew Lloyd Webber is a recovering alcoholic<\/p>\n
\nThe 78-year-old legendary composer announced in 2016 that he hadn’t had a drink for two years, but he has now admitted that, while he stopped drinking while producing School of Rock on Broadway at that time, he secretly went back to alcohol afterwards and sought help just over a year ago.<\/p>\n
\nHe admitted to The Sunday Times newspaper: \u201cI was doing what they call \u2018white-knuckling\u2019, without any back-up, and I started to worry that I wasn\u2019t being creative.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAnd I thought, \u2018But I\u2019ve said to everybody that I\u2019m not drinking.\u2019 So I started to drink secretly…<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI am a recovering alcoholic. Sixteen months ago I decided that I needed help and it\u2019s the best thing that ever happened to me.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nThe Cats composer admitted he went into a “downward spiral” in 2024 before getting sober and his family were deeply concerned.<\/p>\n
\nHe recalled: \u201cYou think it\u2019s secret, but it\u2019s not. Everybody knows. I started getting into a downhill spiral and about 18 months ago the family were in a desperate state. My wife was feeling she couldn\u2019t go on.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nWhile Andrew – who is married to Madeleine Gurdon, the mother of his three youngest children, and also has Imogen and the late Nicholas with first wife Sarah Hugill – checked into a clinic, it didn’t work for him, but it prompted him to visit an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting in Switzerland, and then others in the UK and he “adores” the sense of community he has found within the support groups.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: \u201cPeople had always said, \u2018Oh no, you wouldn\u2019t like that.\u2019 And you get this thought that it\u2019s a load of meth drinkers coming in off the streets. Not at all. <\/p>\n
\n“What I love about it is, you go into a room and everybody\u2019s equal. I\u2019ve made friends that I wouldn\u2019t have thought possible.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nAndrew – who now attends a meeting every day – explained his turning point came when he heard someone else talking about the “stupidity” of addiction.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: \u201cIt was about the ludicrous lengths you go to, the hiding and the pretending.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nAnd he thinks he only developed a problem after declaring he was sober and started drinking in secret.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: \u201cWhen you\u2019re a wine drinker, you don\u2019t think of yourself as\u2026 well, alcoholics drink spirits.<\/p>\n
\n“That was the shocking thing for me, when I realised that I was drinking vodka to hide it.<\/p>\n
\n“You don\u2019t really think. It\u2019s just, \u2018How am I going to get through the day?\u2019 I got that thing of seriously worrying that I wasn\u2019t writing, and panicked. \u2018Maybe I\u2019ll have a drink. OK, I\u2019ve written something.\u2019 Because it does slightly liberate you \u2014 but then it\u2019s more and more and more.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nAndrew feels “lucky” that nothing went badly wrong when he was drinking and he’s embarrassed to think people may have avoided working with him because “word gets around”.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: “I’m lucky that nothing did go very wrong. I haven\u2019t had some frightful accident. But then you begin to think of the near misses…<\/p>\n
\n“I thought that I was getting away with it.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe thing is, I am deeply sorry and I can only apologise to people if I made a mess.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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19 April 2026 Andrew Lloyd Webber is a recovering alcoholic. Andrew Lloyd Webber is a recovering alcoholic The 78-year-old legendary composer announced in 2016 that he hadn’t had a drink for two years, but he has now admitted that, while he stopped drinking while producing School of Rock on Broadway at that time, he secretly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5803],"class_list":{"0":"post-235405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-andrew-lloyd-webber"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}