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ABC News reporter Elizabeth Vargas has publicly admitted she is an alcoholic and has been for many years. Vargas gave an interview with “Good Morning America,” where she admitted hiding her alcohol problem for years from her colleagues and called it exhausting.“Even to admit it to myself was admitting, I thought, that I was a failure.”
Vargas even admitted covering “20/20” specials on drinking but still couldn’t admit her alcoholism. She added that her drinking was also spurned on by her panic attacks which she has suffered with since she was a child. “I dealt with that anxiety, and with the stress that the anxiety brought, by starting to drink.” Varagas began to make excuses for herself and rationalizing…“I started thinking, ‘Well, you know, I’ll only drink, you know, on weekends.’ I’ll only drink, you know, two glasses of wine a night. I won’t drink on nights before I have to get up and do “Good Morning America.'” But those deals never work.” Her husband singer-songwriter Marc Cohn could not be fooled telling her, “You have a problem. You’re an alcoholic.” Vargaa entered rehab last fall and is now in Alcoholics Anonymous and plans to head back to work at as co-anchor of “20/20.”
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