Matt Willis claimed that he watched the sad BBC programme with his eldest daughter because he feels she is ‘old enough’ to understand alcoholism.
The Busted singer speaks up about addiction in his latest documentary, which chronicles the musician’s issues with substance misuse as well as the pressure it imposed on his relationship.
Matt has been in and out of rehab four times in the previous two decades, most recently in 2016 during Busted’s reunion tour.
The Crashed The Wedding singer has three children with his wife, broadcaster Emma Willis: Isabelle, 13, Ace, 10, and Trixie, six.
Matt stated on Monday’s The One Show that he decided to see the fard hitting feature-length with daughter Isabelle.
‘We watched it the other day together,’ he told presenters Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas.
‘She’s almost 14, I thought she’s old enough to know about alcoholism and addiction.
‘We watched it together and she had the most incredible questions, I was blown away by her reaction to it. I thought it was important as her friends or parents at school might watch it so I wanted to preempt her with that.’
Matt previously acknowledged to being addicted to cocaine while his youngest kid, Trixie, was 10 months old.
The star said in the new documentary: ‘After one of our shows, someone offered me a line of coke, and I was like, ‘Oh, cocaine wasn’t a problem for me, alcohol was my downfall.
‘Within a month I was doing six grams on my own every f**king day and not coming home until three in the morning pretending I was working on an album, which I wasn’t really writing, I was making s**t music in the studio doing coke.’
‘I was the maestro at gaslighting, making her think she was nuts,’ Matt revealed to The Guardian.
The One Show airs weekdays at 7pm on BBC One.
