‘It was all very difficult’ – Vogue Williams reflects on the loss of her father

Vogue Williams describes herself as ‘too much’ while reflecting on her teenage years

In an interview with the Irish Independent, Williams described how she grew up:

“I played it very well with my parents being divorced and never ever speaking to each other. Whatever I did when I was with my dad, I could get away with it.”

She spoke about when she planned to go to the Oxygen Music Festival as a teenager, telling her mother she would stay with her dad over the weekend.

"They just said, ‘You’re not listening to us, if you want to do all these things that we’re not happy with, go and live with your dad.’ And I went and lived with my dad. It was great craic for the first few weeks.”

“And then it wasn’t so much great craic. Because I think that kids and teenagers, and everybody, you like to have a system. You like to have a routine.”

“I’d climb out the window and go to the nightclub up the road at like 11 o’clock at night. My parents, my mom and Neil, their house was very strict. And my dad’s house was not strict.”

Williams also reflected on how she wrote about her father in her new memoir, 'Big Mouth'. 

In her memoir, she reflected on the loss of her father when she was 24. 

“Losing parents at any age is a ball of s**t, but it happens to all of us,” she writes.

“I lost my dad when I was in my 20s, and it was all very difficult. He was always out drinking and smoking, having the absolute time of his life.”

Vogue said her father had “zero concern for his own health.”

In her interview with the Irish Independent, Williams said she was reluctant to refer to him as an “alcoholic”:

“I prefer to say ‘liked to drink.’ I think alcoholic — and maybe this is because of Spenny as well, the way he feels about it — I think it’s a bit of a negative word. I don’t know, it just seems a bit harsh.”

“I think a nicer way of putting it is like ‘You’re a bit fond of the drink’. And people are fond of the drink in different ways.”

“My dad wasn’t waking up and drinking in the morning, but he was certainly drinking every day, and I don’t think that it’s very good for anyone’s life to be drinking that much.”