The Script frontman recalls ‘hammering’ whiskey on flight before becoming sober

The Script frontman Danny O’Donoghue has said before he gave up alcohol, in a low moment, he “hammered” whiskeys on a short flight.

The Irish singer said he had intended to go “stone cold sober” for the whole of Christmas, after the death of his 46-year-old bandmate Mark Sheehan in 2023.

However, he revealed that once he had returned to Dublin from the UK for the festive period he immediately started drinking.

The 43-year-old told the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast: “By the time I’d got off the plane, I was smashed. With every intention to get on that plane saying, I’m not going to drink at all and then while I was on it, whiskey please.

“Bang, and then I just hammered the whiskeys, got home and I pretty much spent Christmas just pissed.

“I do one thing on Christmas Day, have been doing it for 14 years now, where I attend Temple Street children’s hospital from nine in the morning…

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