EMILY PRESCOTT: Davina Taylor’s lifetime BA ban for rehab flight
She was as soon as a part of the notoriously hard-drinking Primrose Hill set – and was the primary of the gang to sober up.
But lavatory roll heiress Davinia Taylor has revealed she didn’t precisely relish going to rehab. In truth, she acquired so drunk whereas flying out to the clinic in 2009, she blacked out – incomes herself a lifetime ban from British Airways.
The 46-year-old actress says she needed to have ‘one last hurrah’ on the flight, after her late mom Lynne made her clear up her act.
Speaking to former Downing Street press chief Andy Coulson on his podcast Crisis What Crisis?, she mentioned: ‘I acquired a ban from British Airways for my behaviour on the airplane flying right down to South Africa.’
Loo roll heiress Davinia Taylor has revealed she didn’t precisely relish going to rehab. In truth, she acquired so drunk whereas flying out to the clinic in 2009, she blacked out – incomes herself a lifetime ban from British Airways
The 46-year-old actress says she needed to have ‘one last hurrah’ on the flight, after her late mom Lynne made her clear up her act
Asked what she did, she replied: ‘I do not know, I used to be in blackout. Obviously that they had alcohol on the airplane so I assumed, proper, last hurrah.
‘As anybody who has gone by means of habit will perceive, that’s what your mind will inform you to do, only one last hurrah, that is it. It is so loopy.
‘Instead of going, ‘OK we’ll pull the plaster off now and sit on the airplane’, oh no, no, no, I’m going to make it a bit of bit more durable for myself.’
Ms Taylor, who used to get together with the likes of Kate Moss, Sadie Frost and Jude Law, says that she turned up on the rehab centre in a ‘fully dishevelled state’, so addled that she wrote her title backwards, which she describes as ‘insane’.
During her time there she was pressured handy over custody of her child son Grey to her estranged husband Dave Gardner, David Beckham’s finest good friend. The couple divorced the next yr. She has not drunk alcohol since her keep, and went on to have three extra sons.
Ms Taylor, a former Hollyoaks star whose father Alan made hundreds of thousands from the AM Paper empire, is now a wellness entrepreneur. She additionally mentioned she has ADHD, which she combats with what she calls ‘biohacks’ corresponding to daylight and chilly showers.
Listen to Davina Taylor communicate on the podcast Crisis, what disaster? hosted by Andy Coulson right here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/78-davinia-taylor-on-addiction-losing-custody-of-her/id1517015748?i=1000637875960
