Spencer Matthews: Wife Would Leave If He Drank

said he believes wife 'would have left' him if he had carried on with his boozy lifestyle. 

The star, 37, who previously admitted he 'could have died' at the height of his drinking, tied the knot with the presenter, 40, in June 2018 and has been open about his 'bad habits' with . 

Spencer admitted there use to be a 'divide in their relationship' when he kept drinking and he first realised his boozy habits 'weren't normal' when Vogue became pregnant with their first child. 

The happy couple share son Theodore, seven, daughter Gigi, five, and son Otto, three. 

Speaking on the On the Mend with podcast, Spencer said: 'I was very aware that if I carried on with my drinking and bad habits, that she would get bored, and she would leave me. And I knew that, and she never made that a thing.

'She never sat me down and gave me some kind of ultimatum or anything like that. But I could feel it. I could feel that she was a bit disappointed in me.

'And yes, I think the light was shone on my boozing when she fell pregnant with our firstborn, Theodore. He made a big difference, I think, to our relationship, obviously, because I think what felt like joint fun became solo fun quite quickly because, obviously, she stopped drinking completely.

'And I just didn't, I carried on, and it created this kind of divide in the relationship, but also made me realise, you know, maybe my drinking habits are not normal.'

Spencer, who has previously admitted to drinking 10 pints of Guinness a day, revealed how Vogue picked up on his solo drinking which eventually made him question his habits. 

He explained: 'And to begin with, I would say, like, 'Darling, we're watching a film, like, of course it's, like, normal to have a few glasses of red wine'.

'Like, we're at home chilling. And she's like, 'You're drinking on your own'. And I'd be like, 'Yeah, because you're pregnant?' And she'd be like, 'Well, because I'm not drinking, do you have to, do you have to drink?' And we'd have the odd chat like that.

'And you kind of eventually, you just begin to think, why am I drinking on my own? And you begin to question stuff, perhaps for the first time.'

Spencer's issues with drink were

He previously spoke about his decision to give up alcohol for good and what caused the excessive drinking in the first place on Vogue's Taboo Talk podcast. 

Spencer explained: 'I always had jobs where being able to handle your drink really well was a huge bonus.

'I was a trader at ICAP and we would drink five to 10 pints every single day and then take clients out at night and if you couldn't do that, you wouldn't get the job, basically.'

With the help of Vogue, the father-of-three recalled the situation he found himself in that made him decide to turn his life around.

He said: 'I had a moment of clarity when I was drinking on my own at night if Vogue wasn't around. All of a sudden I was going to bed drunk.

'One night, when I was alone, I had a bottle of whiskey and struggled to get myself to bed. I was hammered drunk. I remember waking up the next day and I thought, "I don't need this in my life."

'If I wasn't married to someone who didn't have a great relationship with alcohol, as in you don't really like it, then my journey would have been more difficult.'