Hello, it's Lauren Laverne and this is Desert Island Disks Postcards.
A selection of some of our most memorable moments from some of the thousands of people we've cast away to our imaginary Desert Island.
This postcard comes from the TV presenter Davina McCall.
Back in 2016, she spoke to Kirsty Young.
about her early struggles with addiction.
I thought I had it all under control, but it was very much sort of white knuckling.
Right, I'm definitely not going to do anything until Friday night,
and then Friday night would turn into Thursday night just to see me through.
And the weekends were getting longer and longer, but really I got bad in my early 20s.
And the thing was, was that I used to look at people in my early 20s when I went out clubbing,
and I started meeting a few people that were clean.
and I think how is it that I'm so out of it but I'm not having a good time and yet you're not drinking or taking any drugs and you're much happier than me and I just couldn't quite get it.
Taking drugs is like Russian roulette.
Some people can take drugs and then put them down and walk away and have an adult life never having touched them again and some people pick up the drugs and they can't put them down and that was me.
And I'd really quite carefully stayed away from alcohol
because I could see that my mother was an alcoholic.
So I thought I was being quite good because I didn't really drink that much.
So I'll just take a few drugs instead.
I mean, what kind of common sense is that?
Ridiculous.