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Lucy Hale<\/a> is opening up and getting candid about <\/span>her struggle with alcohol and addiction<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The 34-year-old actress recently sat down as a guest on the <\/span>Call Her Daddy<\/em><\/a> podcast, and opened up for the first time about her earliest recollections of drinking, and the issues it led to for her.<\/span><\/p>\n “The first time I ever had alcohol… I was probably 12, or 13? I was in Florida, on vacation… and we drank Green Apple Pucker,” Hale recalled. “I remember my very first experience with alcohol was the same as when it ended. I blacked out — at 12 years old. I don’t remember what happened, I threw up, I got very sick, and I remember being so distraught when I realized what had happened.”<\/span><\/p>\n “I was like, ‘Oh my god, my mom is going to be so disappointed in me,'” Hale explained.<\/span><\/p>\n She said that she continued to drink “here and there” between 12 and 18, but then she began to really start drinking hard — and it always led her down a dark road.<\/span><\/p>\n “I remember shame after every experience drinking, because my drinking was never normal,” Hale said. “Literally every time I drank… it was very clear I was drinking to escape something, even at a young age.”<\/span><\/p>\n Hale explained, “I didn’t realize I had a problem until my early 20s,” which is when she first realized how frequently she thought about drinking, and how she felt uncomfortable going out and not having alcohol. Thus, she decided to seek help.<\/span><\/p>\n