‘HOW I LEARNED TO TAME MY ANXIETY’
EMILY WEIR, 31
A few years ago, Brisbane-born actress Emily Weir appeared to have it all going on. She’d just landed her dream role as Mackenzie Booth on Home and Away, a show she and her family had watched since childhood.
But behind the scenes, the star tells WHO, she was battling crippling anxiety which had led to an alcohol addiction. “I was self-medicating with red wine, but I managed to hide it all really well,” she says frankly.
Even as her career was flying, her personal life was crumbling. It was after one messy night too many that Weir says she woke up and had an epiphany.
“I knew I had to stop drinking. It wasn’t serving me well and I knew…