‘I made a conscious choice to pick myself up out of the gutter’ on August 22, 2016Lisa Messenger will always remember the day she decided to change her life. It was 8 November 2004, when, faced with a future that was “spiralling out of control”, she seriously contemplated suicide. “My life was an absolute train smash,” she says. “I drank way too much. I partied hard. I alienated my whole family.” […]