The 'Even Stevens' actor has been sober for more than five years.
In aposted to her channel Tuesday, Romano, 37, revealed that she began binge drinking at age 16 to help cope with feelings of shyness. Soon, she was a regular in the New York City nightlife scene where consuming several glasses of wine in a few hours was “socially acceptable.”
“As I wasn’t working and I was depressed … I would want to go out because that would help me get out of the mindset of whatever I was in,” Romano shared. But the next day, she would wake up feeling even worse and just sleep until it was time to go out again. “Alcohol is a depressant,” Romano explained. “Compound regular alcohol usage with everything else that life gives you and you’re really looking at the perfect formula for someone to stay down.”
At one point, Romano went on a low dose of antidepressants, but they didn’t work because she was still drinking heavily.“I didn’t really have any goals, I didn’t really have any dreams, I didn’t have a lot of feelings. Alcohol kept pushing them down,” she said. “It wasn’t helping me. It wasn’t giving me anything I could grow from. It was a bad presence in my life.”
The"Kim Possible" alum, who shares daughters Isabella, 4, and Sophia, 2, with husband, Brendan Rooney,
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