Jo O’Meara recalls her issues with fruit machines and says addiction ‘can happen to anybody at any time’
Jo O’Meara, a former member of the 90s pop group S Club 7, has shared how she became addicted to gambling on fruit machines as a “form of escape” from the pressures of touring, before realising she had to quit because it made her antisocial.
“It would just let me forget about everything for a while, because all I could concentrate on was the task in hand, getting the three leprechauns or the three lemons in a row. It wasn’t about the money so much as about trying to beat the machine to get what I wanted it to do. It was the buzz.” She said she had been angered by reports of her gambling in tabloid newspapers in the 2000s. “I didn’t really like that it was being labelled as gambling addiction because I never saw it that way and in a lot of ways I don’t see it as that much either, but I can see I had issues with it and I think if I’d been left to it and I didn’t snap out of it, it could have gone a lot further.”
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