Overview
- Sheridan Smith told Alan Carr's Life's a Beach podcast she was refused boarding on a Florida flight for being too drunk and said it felt like a nightmare when others boarded and she was left behind.
- She said she no longer drinks and feels able to laugh about it now, adding that she has stayed sober since 2019.
- She has linked her past heavy drinking and dependence on anti‑anxiety medication to grief tied to her father's terminal cancer and her brother's death.
- Coverage also recounts that she reportedly stopped taking medication after a Graham Norton joke at the 2016 BAFTAs.
- Smith is currently starring in BBC One's The Cage, filmed in Liverpool, which she has described as her adopted home.