That life is precious and fragile and there are no do-overs,” Vargas said. “I wish I could say that first trip to rehab cured me, that I learned everything I needed to learn to stay sober. It would be a long, difficult process of sobriety and relapse. Shortly thereafter she checked herself into rehab. She awoke seven hours later in a hospital emergency room. Vargas said she became adept at hiding her problem from her family, friends and colleagues.Īfter an interview one Saturday in June, Vargas drank a bottle of wine and blacked out. “I drank to feel like other people looked.” “I never gave a thought to it,” she said.
By the time she landed a position on national news, she was drinking wine every night. Over time, Vargas said she found that she needed more wine to relax. Suddenly, I could relax and the world seemed gentler and rosier.” That glass of wine had a profound effect on my anxiety and my grating insecurity that I wasn’t talented enough or good enough to be working there.
“And as we sipped and laughed, the cares of the day would melt away from me. Honest and hopeful, BETWEEN BREATHS is an inspiring read.“We would all troop to a local bar to toast our successes or commiserate our failures,” Vargas said. She addresses her time in rehab, her first year of sobriety, and the guilt she felt as a working mother who could never find the right balance between a career and parenting. The now-A&E Network reporter reveals how she found herself living in denial about the extent of her addiction, and how she kept her dependency a secret for so long. Now, in BETWEEN BREATHS, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety-which began suddenly at the age of six when her father served in Vietnam-and how she dealt with this anxiety as she came of age, eventually turning to alcohol for a release from her painful reality. Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestsellerįrom the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic," to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Winner of the Books for a Better Life Award in the First Book category
Beloved former ABC 20/20 anchor Elizabeth Vargas reveals her alcohol addiction and anxiety disorder in a shockingly honest and emotional memoir.
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