Many local celebrities have almost /already ruined their careers because of alcoholism. Some have transformed, while some have not been able to.

Below are some who’s careers took a nose dive

Jimwat

Known by many for his song “Under 18” the soft spoken musician from Kikuyu has had his own struggles with alcoholism which which saw him fade away from the limelight.

His turning point came after he was involved in grisly accident along Thika Road.

He adds

Alcohol was gonna kill me but pancreatitis came and saved me.

I talk about it as a way of me giving back in my own special ways.

I have been sober for 10 years and why I talk about my past addiction is that I want to encourage someone who thinks they have hit a dead end.

Caroline Kagia

Sister to secular artiste DNA, Caroline opened up about battling alcoholism in a candid narration on Engage.

She explained that the first time she drunk alcohol was when she was in form 5. She confessed ruefully on how a friend gave her some alcohol and promised her on how ‘high’ she would get after that.

“I was so disappointed But little did I know, that was a sign of a problem.

(That she had not got high on 12% of alcohol) Little did I know that I had awoken a sleeping giant because in our family on our paternal side, we are genetically predisposed to alcoholism.”

When she later revealed to her friends in school that she had not got intoxicated, they were confused. She finished her A-levels and then she went to the popular Westlands club, Q’s to celebrate.

Her friend ordered for her a can of Redd’s. Caroline ended up drinking up-to 6 of the cans. The issue is that she did not feel intoxicated enough until she decided to walk. When she tried, she fell.

The regret she felt after the incident made her decide not to drink again. She then left the country for a foreign country to study for two years.

She says she did not like the country. Also, her drinking problem got worse.

She confesses:

Beers did not work for me. I needed harder drinks to get high.

I missed getting raped or dying several times while in this foreign country.

I believe it is the prayers of my parents that kept me.

After one year in the country, she went back home to parents who were very disappointed at her appearance.

In 2005 after finishing her studies, she conceived a baby. She again started drinking heavily because she was in denial about having conceived.

She narrates how she started drinking second generation drinks even selling her house hold good just to sustain her habit

It was then that she recognized that she was now a full-blown alcoholic, a fact her dad had diagnosed back in 2007.

She got so low that she even started selling her household goods, including even her doors! Finally in early 2017 she decided to deal with her issue head-on:

She sought help  and is now a recovered alcoholic.