Vicky Pattison on Anxiety, Alcohol, and Self-Advocacy
On The Mend
High Performance
4.9 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Matt Willis returns for a second series of On The Mend. His first guest is Vicky Pattison, a Jungle Queen, whose feet haven’t touched the ground since she first appeared on our screens in 2011.
Geordie Shore was a baptism by fire, at a time when reality television was “a bit like the Wild West”. Vicky was only in her early 20s, she was unprepared for the spotlight, and she created a caricature of herself to hide the vulnerable person struggling inside.
But since then, Vicky has put in the work. She’s learned what makes her tick, the tools which help her anxiety, and how to navigate her own relationship with alcohol, and her father’s alcoholism.
Vicky was determined to become the best version of herself, she seized the opportunity to change public opinion on I’m A Celebrity… And she wants to inspire the next generation of women to never dim their sparkle, and go after exactly what they want.
This interview was recorded in March 2024, a few months after Vicky had returned from an endurance mission in the Arctic Circle, raising funds for Comic Relief.
Related links: NACOA (The National Association for Children of Alcoholics)
Vicky Pattison: Alcohol, Dad and Me (Channel 4)
Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction (BBC)
Snow Going Back: Comic Relief v the Arctic (BBC)
The Secret to Happy: How to build resilience, banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve (Vicky’s book)
Vicky Pattison: The Secret To (podcast)
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| 0:00.0 | Want to know who's coming up next? Hit follow wherever you get your podcast and you'll be the first to find out. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to On the Men. My name is Matt Willis and the first season of this podcast, Sean Alight on Addiction and Recovery with my guests sharing their expertise, experiences and hard-earned wisdom. Right now, I'm opening up the conversation to include a much |
| 0:22.2 | broader story of resilience because I think we become kinder and wiser when we listen and hear |
| 0:28.1 | perspectives that aren't necessarily our own. This week's guest is the lovely Vicky Patterson. |
| 0:34.1 | She's a Geordie Jungle Queen, a presenter and author whose feet really haven't touched |
| 0:39.0 | the ground since she first appeared on our screens in Geordie Shore. Jorley Shore was a bit of |
| 0:43.6 | a baptism of fire for Vicky. You know, Vicky felt confused, inauthentic and a little lost in her |
| 0:48.9 | 20s. But since then, she's put in the work, believe me. She's learned what makes her tick, the coping mechanisms |
| 0:55.3 | which work, and she speaks about her experiences and her relationship with anxiety and alcohol. |
| 1:00.7 | With absolute wit and wisdom, she's amazing. In 2022, she published a book called The Secret |
| 1:06.8 | to Happy, How to Build Resilience, Banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve. |
| 1:27.4 | I think we all need a little bit of that, don't we? I certainly do. Let's meet Vicky and find that a little bit more. Vicki, how are you? I'm okay. Thank you. How are you? I'm good. Thanks. I'm good. Thank you so much for coming on. My pleasure. It's such a fucking joy to see you. You really light me up. |
| 1:28.3 | That's so nice. |
| 1:29.0 | It's so nice. |
| 1:30.2 | I feel the same way about you. |
| 1:31.2 | You've got a lovely energy. |
| 1:31.2 | Oh. for coming on. My pleasure. It's such a fucking joy to see you. You really light me up. That's so nice. It's so nice. I feel the same way about you. You've got a lovely energy. |
| 1:39.3 | Oh, thanks, babe. Thank you. I watched your comic relief escapade the other night. And I've got to say you fucking Sean. And if I ever do anything like that, I want you there. You feel like the perfect person to |
| 1:46.6 | kind of be around at that kind of like challenging horrible time. How did you find the cold |
| 1:51.4 | water at the beginning? So that, like honestly, I look back at the entire process and everybody's |
| 1:57.5 | still like bright eyed and bushy tailed on that first day. Yeah, yeah. Like Laura Whitmore is positively stunning in that moment. |
| 2:03.6 | Like I look at it and I'm like, how are you even human? And I already look frozen to the bone. Yeah, you did. As soon as you stepped off the plane, you looked at, you're like, oh my God, it's freezing here. I don't know what it is. And I was the one that everyone was expecting to be like most hardened to the cold, given like, you know, where I grew up. |
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