Hannah Brown addressed her relationship with alcohol throughout a latest TV look. As a visitor on the Tamron Hall Show, the previous Season 15 Bachelorette star shared she didn’t know the best way to deal with how public her life had turn out to be after her stints on the Bachelor franchise and Dancing with the Stars and that she turned to alcohol for consolation.
“I’d never really been a drinker before and I was on TV like every Monday for an entire year and didn’t know how to handle how my life had so publicly been displayed,” the 27-year-old defined. “[I] have always lived with a smile on my face and you know, tried to pretend like everything was okay, but then when I was at home by myself, the only thing that was really giving me comfort was a glass of wine and then it became more than that and no excuses for mistakes that I’ve made but also, I was not in the best place of life and didn’t know what resources I had to be able to get that help.”
This shouldn’t be the primary time the truth star has been candid about struggles with alcohol. In her 2021 memoir, God Bless This Mess, Brown wrote that on May 16, 2020, she “started drinking at 11 a.m. — and never really stopped.”
But by November 2021, Brown informed Entertainment Tonight, “I’m actually, just for my mental health, not really drinking right now. I’ll have a glass of wine or two, but [not more]… I thought I’d never have problems with [alcohol]. I just never had that personality.”
Brown has brazenly mentioned her struggles with despair and nervousness on social media. In 2021, after watching Oprah and Prince Harry’s psychological well being docuseries The Me You Can’t See, Brown shared through her Instagram Story “it’s not easy living with depression and anxiety or any mental illness, but conversations like these are so impactful to help us all feel not so alone on our mental health journey.”
As a speaker on Kenneth Cole’s Mental Health Coalition 1-2-1 Instagram TV Series, the Alabama beauty queen shared that she had to learn about boundaries after her multiple appearances on reality TV.
“This previous yr I actually needed to go on a journey of unpacking [her past years of being on TV],” she said. “I’ve needed to study what boundaries are. What serves me, what would not serve me. What values are vital to me and what’s the kind of love that I feel I deserve and that I’m receiving. How to have these issues align. And the best way to break down limiting beliefs that I’ve had about myself for therefore lengthy. Or the 1000’s of people that have opinions about me, say about me. Really asking myself if that is true or not, or if I’m enjoying into that function. That’s one thing that I’ve been actually within the means of understanding of who I’m.”
