Linda Robson’s family pleaded with their neighborhood shopkeeper to deny her alcohol sales.

The star of ‘Loose Women’ has candidly discussed her struggle with alcohol in her just published heart-rending memoir. She revealed the distressing instance when her family implored the local seller to bar her from purchasing booze.

In a segment from the memoir, which has been featured in the Daily Mail, Linda, at the age of 65, penned: “Once finished with shooting, before reaching home, I would request the driver to halt so I could fetch a small bottle of vodka, which I would carry to bed and drink till I blacked out.”

“My family approached the nearby store and convinced the owner to refuse serving me. I then started visiting a store slightly distant, where they didn’t recognize me. Eventually, the family began to lock me inside the house, which seemed like the solitary solution to cease me.”

“I know that sounds like drastic action, but they were at the end of their tethers. Even that didn’t rein me in. I would try to climb up the wall of our roof terrace to get out over the other side.”

Linda also humiliatingly revealed she would “beg strangers” for vodka.

She said: “Or I would go and stand at the gate and beg strangers passing by to go and get me some vodka.”

And, Linda said she hit breaking point when her daughter Lauren told her she could no longer mind her grandchildren alone.

She expressed: “The most distressing moment of this entire phase occurred when my daughter Lauren signified that I was unable to care for my two innocent granddaughters independently anymore.”

“She started worrying about the prospects of me harming myself in their presence. There were days when I would take either of them to a store, secretly purchase a small vodka bottle, and consume it behind her back, which I regret confessing now.”

The family of Linda eventually managed to secure her a spot in the Nightingale Hospital in London, but she was battling suicidal tendencies.

However, Linda gratefully acknowledges The Priory and AA for assisting her to finally resolve her alcohol difficulties.

She said: “I haven’t had a drink… and I’m absolutely fine to be around alcohol. I’m never tempted.”