Millie Mackintosh Embraces Solo Journey Post-Split

has opened up on how she's learned to 'enjoy being alone' and starting to choose herself - following the news of her shock split from husband .

The former  star, 36 appeared on podcast, A Millennial Mind, this week, where she spoke about rebuilding her identity after going sober.

Detailing how her decision to give up booze had impacted her life, she explained that it has made her start re-evaluating who she was and what she liked doing, describing it as 'burning down the old me'.

Millie said that now she had gotten to know and love herself enough to get to a place where she could enjoy her own company and had begun to 'start stepping into the woman that I truly want to be.'

While she added that she was excited for the future, after recently starting to choose herself - just two weeks after she and Hugo, 39, called time on their seven-year marriage.

Reflecting on the best thing that has come from going sober, she said: 'I would say being able to start loving myself and getting to know myself, has been the best thing because I feel like I've really been able to kind of start stepping into the woman that I truly want to be.

'It's been a really transformative process. Kind of like I almost had to burn down the old me. To start again and then figure out, okay, who am I? What do I like? Who am I without alcohol? And that felt really scary at the beginning.'

The mother-of-two continued: 'Okay, maybe I'm not actually this confident extrovert. Actually, I'm a really sensitive introvert who's got ADHD, gets really over stimulated really easily, who actually likes small gatherings, early nights, being with her dog, being silly with her kids, but actually not being the wild party girl.

'Truly getting to know myself and the most important relationship we have in our lives is the one we have with ourselves. And when I was drinking, I did not like myself one bit. I was carrying all that shame. I hated myself.'

Millie has spoken candidly about her unhealthy issues with binge drinking, which started at a young age, documenting her journey to sobriety in her book, Bad Drunk, after quitting alcohol in the summer of 2022.

She candidly detailed how her journey to self-love was ongoing, but that the 'biggest gift' had been learning to enjoy being alone.

'It's still something I'm working on now,' she said. 'Like it's not perfect, but truly getting to know myself, being comfortable with myself, enjoying my own company, enjoying being alone. 

'Actually getting to a point where being alone with my thoughts isn't torture. I think that's the biggest gift.'

And despite the recent crumbling of her marriage, the reality star insisted she was looking forward to the future and becoming 'this magnetic person that attracts their desires'.

 She explained: 'When you start choosing yourself, it's a powerful shift. You start attracting exactly different things because you're valuing yourself much higher and you're choosing yourself. I think the respect is so important as well.