Who Is Your Wife? UK House Of Common Speaker's Wife Try To Play Down Being Caught Kissing And Smushing A Bloke In A Nightclub!

After being pictured in an intimate clinch in a nightclub, the Speaker’s wife might have been expected to lie low for a while.

But Sally Bercow took to Twitter for several hours to talk about her ‘tough week’ and slam reports that her husband is ‘distraught’ about her drinking.

The mother-of-three has spoken candidly about her battle with alcoholism, and told her 5,000 followers on the site on Saturday night she had been ‘in denial’ about her drinking during the 1990s.

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John Bercow is understood to have asked his wife Sally to seek help for her drinking after being pictured kissing dancer Clinton Baugh in a London nightclub last week

But she claimed in a series of tweets that after abstaining for more than a decade, she was now drinking ‘like a normal person’, claiming the ‘insecurities [and] issues that made me drink to excess [are] no longer present.’ 

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She finally signed off around 1am saying: ‘Bed now for me and beloved but ‘distraught’ Mr B. I had two glasses of wine this eve - shocking huh!’ She then used the hashtag #ragingalcoholic’.

Her comment appeared to be in response to a newspaper story claiming John Bercow had been begging her to get professional help for her drinking, fearing it could ruin their marriage, and alleged he had been left ‘distraught’ by her failure to follow his advice.

Last week 44-year-old Mrs Bercow was pictured kissing professional dancer Clinton Baugh, while on a night out at the No5 Cavendish Square nightclub - her blonde hair covered up by a brunette wig.

After pictures of the pair were published, she insisted it had been taken out of context, and hit out at critics saying: ‘I don’t need to apologise to John, I’ve done nothing wrong.

'Mr marriage is my business. I couldn’t give a damn what people think. Let people judge me if they want. The guy in the picture is a friend. End of.’ 

But a guest at the nightclub where she was attending a party hosted by reality TV stars, claimed she ‘couldn’t take her hands off’ Mr Baugh, adding: ‘You could tell Sally was drunk. She appeared unsteady on her feet and her top was stained...she didn’t seem to care who was watching her.’ 

Yesterday a friend of her husband was quoted as saying: ‘John has been worried about her drinking for some time. He has pleaded with her to accept professional help but she is resisting. 

‘He is distraught, because she is worryingly disinclined to think she has a problem or should seek help for it. It is putting the marriage in danger.’ 

The friend claimed Mrs Bercow - who admitted drinking up to two bottles of wine a day in her 20s - had started drinking and socialising heavily in the summer of 2012 after years of abstinence.

This weekend Mrs Bercow had a lengthy chat with Twitter users, many of whom took her side about starting to drink again. She told how after giving up alcohol in 2001, she had been ‘drinking like a normal person for last 18 months.’ 

And courted controversy by saying: ‘I know the AA lobby won’t like this and I understand why but for some (few) people it is possible to resume drinking after a prolonged period of abstinence.

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Mrs Bercow admits she used to drink up to two bottles of wine a day during her 20s, but is 'very strict' now

She added: ‘Had a decade off and have strict rules but so far am doing ok being off the wagon. Though it’s not PC [politically correct] to say that obviously.’ She added she only drinks wine - never spirits.

Mrs Bercow complained about the pressure of her position talking about the ‘real issue is that they expect wives of senior politicians to conform. Sod that - I married John, not ‘Mr Speaker.’ 

After hitting out at that the ‘friends’ of Mr Bercow briefing against her, she said: ‘John and I got no idea what you’re talking about. Stop trying to destroy our marriage’. 

She added: ‘It’s been a tough week for me and J (my fault!)’ and told her followers ‘but nothing compared to comrades’ daily hardships. You have my utmost respect’.

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