I was a boozed-up mum on mission to get messed up… it was the antidote to parental stress & Xmas was my ultimate weapon

LIKE most of us, mum-of-two Rachael Shephard looked forward to Christmas. But it wasn’t the excitement of watching her kids open their presents that she longed for. Rather, the self-confessed master of ‘mum partying’ looked forward to hiding her dark secret behind the cloak of ‘simply being festive’. For Rachael was a high-functioning alcoholic, on…