Lulu fights back the tears as she opens up about her alcoholism – and how ‘sad’ she feels that her dad didn’t have the same amount of help she did

Lulu fought back the tears as she opened up about her alcoholism on Wednesday’s This Morning – and how ‘sad’ she feels that her dad didn’t have the same amount of help she did.

The singer, 76 – who shot to fame with her tune Shout in 1964 – appeared on the iconic sofa to chat to hosts Cat Deeley, 48, and Ben Shephard, 50, about her new memoir If Only You Knew. 

In her book, she writes about her battle with alcoholism and what led her to have her last ever drink back in November 2013. 

But Lulu isn’t the only person in her family who has suffered. 

Cat pointed out: ‘Considering the history you have as well, the way you were brought up, the family you lived in, you’d seen this before, really?’ 

Lulu replied: ‘My father. They would say “Oh Eddie likes a good drink”. 

Lulu fought back the tears as she opened up about her alcoholism – and how ‘sad’ she feels that her dad didn’t have the same amount of help she did on This Morning on Wednesday

The singer, 76, appeared on the iconic sofa to chat to hosts Cat Deeley , 48, and Ben Shephard , 50, about her new memoir If Only You Knew

Lulu spoke about her dad’s alcoholism on the show – the singer (middle) pictured with her mum Betty McDonald and her dad Eddie Lawrie

‘They would never say…’ 

‘Back in that day they didn’t have the tools to be able to help themselves,’ Cat pointed out. 

With tears filling in her eyes, Lulu replied: ‘It really makes me sad when I think that my parents didn’t have the help that I have today. 

‘My sister is a psychotherapist. 

‘She knew not to bring it up until I brought it up.’ 

Lulu’s parents are called Betty McDonald and Eddie Lawrie. 

The Shout singer previously confessed during the interview: ‘I had this secretive, but actually shame-filled, full of shame about being an alcoholic like my dad, full of shame about a lot of things that happened in my childhood, a lot of things I’d done.’ 

Presenter Ben wanted to know why she decided to have her last drink all those years ago. 

In her book, the Shout singer (pictured) writes about her battle with alcoholism and what led her to have her last ever drink back in November 2013

Lulu explained: ‘I don’t think I decided, sometimes things are decided for us. 

‘I struggled, struggled, struggled for years, secretly. Nobody knew I was an alcoholic.’ 

The presenter went on to ask how bad it was, to which she replied: ‘It was bad. 

‘It was never bad because I was a fall down drunk, nobody ever saw me, my son didn’t now I was an alcoholic even when i went to rehab and I called him.’ 

The star said that she was ‘secretive’ about it all, would go out and go home and have ‘another drink’, and she couldn’t stop drinking.

Despite keeping it to herself, her sister knew all along what was going on with her.

Lulu said: ‘I had a birthday party, everybody left, expect my sister and her kids, two of them lived with me.

Lulu said: ‘I struggled, struggled, struggled for years, secretly. Nobody knew I was an alcoholic’

‘In the conversation around the table with a cup of tea, although I probably had a glass of wine, but I might have had a cup of tea… 

‘My niece said “You know so and so, he’s hanging on by his finger nails”, talking about his problem with alcohol. 

‘And I said, I don’t know where it came from, “He’s not the only one.” 

‘It was silent. My sister looked at me and said very kindly, she said “I know. I’ve known for quite some time.” 

‘The cat was out of the bag. It was as if somebody up there likes me, I know have to share it. 

‘I couldn’t ask for help before,but at that moment, I looked at my sister and said: “I have to go to rehab?” She said: “I think so”. 

‘I was there the next day.’

It comes after it was revealed that Lulu admitted she was ‘afraid of sex’ while growing up in the sixties, at the peak of her career.

In an exclusive extract from her upcoming memoir If Only You Knew, released on September 25 in line with her tour, Lulu candidly detailed her intimacy fears after she revealed she is an alcoholic in recovery. 

The singer revealed that the idea of sex made her feel ‘very self-conscious’, so she preferred to wait for the right person to fall in love with.

She wrote: ‘I wasn’t a fan. I was a musician. 

‘But, the truth is, I was also afraid of sex. It had never been openly discussed in my home and Betty [her mother] had made it seem almost shameful, one of the many threads that coursed through the black rage between my parents.

‘I wanted love, I wanted romance. I was just scared of the reality, so I spent my time wrapped up in fantasy, in love with the idea of love.’

This Morning airs weekdays from 10am on ITV.