Problem Drinking - Delivered to Your Door - with Hattie Underwood
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week on Sober Awkward, Vic chats to Hattie Underwood, the London-based mum of two behind Sober Happy Free, who has recently been speaking out across the UK media about the worrying rise of alcohol delivery services. After loads of Sober Awkward listeners tagged Vic in clips saying, “You HAVE to get her on the podcast!”… here she is.
Now five years sober, Hattie openly shares the raw reality of addiction through lived experience, challenging stigma and reminding people that absolutely anyone can struggle with alcohol — and anyone deserves the chance to recover, one day at a time.
Having appeared on Good Morning Britain, Channel 5 News and the BBC, Hattie is also using her voice to campaign with Alcohol Change UK and raise awareness around the dangers of modern drinking culture.
Together they explore what happens when booze never really runs out. No awkward shuffle to the bottle shop. No eye contact with the cashier. No closing time. No moment to pause and think, “Hang on… maybe this is getting a bit much.” Just a bloke in a helmet arriving at your doorstep with another bottle and zero questions asked.
Hattie explains how alcohol delivery services quietly escalated her drinking, why these apps can become so dangerous, and how the convenience and secrecy of “alcohol on demand” is creating growing concerns in both the UK and Australia.
They chat about shame, loneliness, high-functioning drinking, dependency and the terrifying reality of alcohol being available in under thirty minutes, right at the exact moment someone is most vulnerable.
Plus Vic asks herself a slightly uncomfortable question:
What would her own drinking have looked like if the booze literally never ran out?
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| 0:00.0 | Right, the kettles boiled, perfect timing. |
| 0:06.0 | I'll just make myself a quick cupper, take a deep breath and pretend I know exactly what I'm doing. |
| 0:12.7 | Right, let's get started. |
| 0:17.2 | Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning with massive anxiety and said to yourself, |
| 0:23.7 | I'm never drinking again, only to find yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman by happy hour? |
| 0:30.0 | Do you ever wonder why everyone else can stop at one while you end up at a dodgy after |
| 0:35.2 | party holding hands with a weird bloke called Disco Day. |
| 0:39.6 | If so, it might be time to take a closer look at your reliable social crutch, alcohol. |
| 0:46.4 | On this podcast, I investigate my own deeply dysfunctional dealings with booze |
| 0:51.5 | and find out what it's really like navigating this alcohol-drenched |
| 0:55.7 | world, one fizzy water at a time. I'm going to open up a shame shed of humiliating drinking |
| 1:01.8 | stories to help you understand why waking up with one eyebrow missing and a kebab sticking |
| 1:07.8 | out of your top pocket might actually be negatively impacting your health. |
| 1:12.3 | So, what happens when you put down those cheeky pints and finally let go of those rewarding mummy wines? |
| 1:19.5 | I guess we're just going to have to wait and see. |
| 1:22.8 | I'm Victoria Vanstone and this is Sober Awkward. |
| 1:29.4 | Yeah, some tweeting birds outside, chirping their fucking heads off as usual. |
| 1:35.4 | These Australian birds, I don't know, they're ever so noisy. |
| 1:38.8 | I'd stick with a crow or a pigeon any day. |
| 1:43.8 | Anyway, Mother's Day was yesterday, |
| 1:46.8 | that one magical day |
| 1:48.6 | where it somehow annoys me even more |
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