My spiralling mess of drugs and drink... by the Earl's girl who is starring on The Voice

The aristocrat who triumphed on last night’s edition of The Voice spent years battling an addiction to drugs and drink – and is currently dividing her time between the show and the hospital bedside of her very ill mother.

Lady Catherine Anna Brudenell-Bruce, 27 – the daughter of the Earl of Cardigan – who appeared on the hit BBC1 show under her stage name Bo Bruce, has revealed how her life was a ‘spiralling mess of drugs and alcohol’.

Bo, whose ancestor led the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854, says on her website that she managed to turn her life around only after undergoing extensive rehab in ‘a warren of treatment centres and psychiatric hospitals’.

And although viewers were told that Bo was an aristocrat, they heard nothing else about her colourful and often traumatic past.       More Read