Vogue Williams says she would’ve ditched Spencer Mathews if he didn’t stop boozing

The podcast star (38) married former Made In Chelsea alumni Spencer (35) in 2018 and the pair share three children together Theo, five, Gigi, three, and Otto, two.

Speaking on the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast, Dublin native Vogue indicated her father’s relationship with drink played a part in how she views alcohol.

Elizabeth asked Vogue if she would have broken up with Spencer had he not knocked the habit on the head.

“I think the way he was drinking, yeah definitely,” Vogue responded.

The model and influencer recalled some incidents from her family’s past.

“Because with my dad and stuff like although he was a heavy drinker, he wasn’t a drinker. He wouldn’t wake up in the morning and drink, but I’d know where he was at five o’clock at night, he’d always be in the pub every single day without fail.”

Vogue previously said that her husband’s work life was suffering from his habit.

“He was watching me working and I was kind of getting really cool jobs and doing better things and he was just kind of not being very productive.

“Then he decided himself to give up drinking and as soon as he did that he just achieved so much more and his career has completely changed since he did that.

“His life has completely changed, and he’s gotten himself to a point now where he can have the odd drink sometimes and I think it’s quite helpful that I don’t want to drink all the time, we never have drink in the house.

“That’s not because we’re scared we will drink it, we just never want it.

“So he did that for himself and I think that was quite an amazing thing to do.”

Vogue poked fun at her husband for saying she sporadically over-drank.

“He was like ‘yeah Vogue and I used to binge drink three times a week’, I was like ‘I never binge drink three times a week’, it makes me sound so bad.

“I’m a binge drinker because I don’t really like the taste of alcohol, so if you see me drinking alcohol I’m drinking it for one reason, and that’s to get drunk.

“Drinking was a huge part of kind of our lives growing up with everybody around us, but I think with Spenny it was unusual for him to be drinking that much.

“Because his parents aren’t big drinkers, his brother isn’t a big drinker, it was just him.

“I think that that level of drinking is too much for anyone to be able to be productive or to have a family.

“It would be very difficult for him to have achieved anything had he kept up that level of drinking,” Vogue added.

For his part, Spencer has gone on the record to say that he was aware his relationship would have ended up in turmoil.

“There was a certainty that I would lose Vogue, if I carried on drinking the way I was drinking,” he said.

The pair met in 2017 on reality show The Jump, where initially “we had this highly social, quite boozy relationship.”

“I think anybody who was on The Jump will tell you that it was quite something.

“Although I went sober when I made the finals for ten days before the finals, only went and won!’

“When I won, I went on some like mental bender, lost everything. I was beginning to feel like I was a real mess, then. And that was a bit unusual for me.

Spencer had described the way Vogue would “binge drink every few days and drink to get drunk” while he would carry on “every day.”

“She won’t mind me saying she’s a bit of a binge drinker. She actually hates alcohol, she can’t stand being hungover. She doesn’t like the taste of booze, but she’ll drink to get drunk,” he said.

“Back then she would drink to get drunk every few days. Now, it’s once-a-month type of thing.

“On the days off, I would drink and she wouldn’t. And then she would get back on the horse. And then when she stopped, I carried on and it was every day, and she would draw attention to it.

“My drinking was emphasised by the fact that she wasn’t drinking. There was a general level of disappointment in her about me. Which felt s**t, right, because I’ve always wanted people who are close to me to be proud of me.

“I was beginning to feel like a real loser. She would do these great things and travel while she was pregnant, and land these TV jobs and present these documentaries. And I’d be at home.

“She didn’t really believe me, and neither did anybody else,” he admitted but “I didn’t drink for three and a half years, just stopped.”

Spencer then signed up his first ultra-marathon – running six and a half marathons in five days in the Sahara Desert.

“I did it to punish myself for the years wasted,” he added.

In April, Vogue said she fainted the morning after having a few drinks on holiday.

“So we had a few drinks last night but I’m not like violently hungover,” she revealed.

“I don’t know what happened but I literally just got up to go to the toilet at like 7 in the morning and I obviously stood up too fast.

“Full-on fainted and just fell on the floor and Spenny was like ‘What is happening? What’s wrong with you? What’s wrong?’

“It was the weirdest thing because I couldn’t remember fainting, I just knew I was on the floor.”

Vogue continued: “It’s a really weird feeling, yeah. I remember standing up but I don’t remember blacking out but then I was on the ground and I was like ‘Oh crap.’

“My elbows were really sore ’cause I had landed on them.”

“But yeah really strange experience. Kinda liked it,” she joked.