between breaths a memoir of panic and addiction

'Nobody looks in the boot.Former ABC News anchor Elizabeth Vargas covered the 9/11 attacks on America, the invasion of Iraq, and the Amanda Knox trial. 'I had these knee-high boots, and I would stick a bottle of wine in the boot,' Vargas tells PEOPLE exclusively. PEOPLE: Elizabeth Vargas Reveals She Kept Wine Bottles Hidden Inside Her Knee-High Boots - ' Elizabeth Vargas struggled with addiction for years and to keep it secret she kept her alcohol in one surprising place. But above all, Vargas was considered a consummate workhorse.' They described her as driven, ambitious, at times intemperate or inconsiderate. Vargas' current and former bosses declined to be interviewed for this story, saying Vargas' memoir could speak for itself. Six former colleagues told me they had not known of her alcoholism. NPR News: Insecurity, Anxiety Were Constant Companions, ABC News' Vargas Says - 'As Vargas tells it, one night she became so inebriated that a passerby had to rescue her from possible predators in a park after she was so inebriated, her blood alcohol level was in a range that is often lethal. But that’s just me romanticizing something that turned out to be really monstrous for me.'' 'But I look at them and I think, ‘I miss that.’ I miss that time when, you know, it felt so innocent and romantic. 'I don’t look at them and think, ‘I want one,’' Vargas said. From The Reading ListĪBC News: ABC News Anchor Elizabeth Vargas on Her Long Battle With Alcohol and Her Road to Recovery - 'Today, when Elizabeth Vargas walks down the streets of New York City on a warm evening, passing wine bars filled with people enjoying glasses of wine, it’s a very different experience for her than it once was. Professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. Author of the new book, ' Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic And Addiction.' ( McHugh, psychologist with the division of alcohol and drug absue at McLean Hospital. Jane Clayson GuestsĮlizabeth Vargas, co-anchor of ABC News' 20/20. This hour On Point, Elizabeth Vargas on anxiety, addiction – and her recovery. Inside, she was fighting back panic attacks.

Live before the nation, covering everything from 9/11 to the Iraq War, she was calm. ABC News anchor and correspondent Elizabeth Vargas was at the top of the professional ladder. You’d never know it to look at her on the set. Elizabeth Vargas attends the ABC 2016 Network Upfront Presentation at David Geffen Hall in New York. Facebook Email This article is more than 6 years old.ĪBC News anchor Elizabeth Vargas joins us for a frank conversation about her battle with alcoholism.

Between breaths a memoir of panic and addiction