EMILY PRESCOTT: Loo heiress Davina Taylor says she has been banned for life by BA for flying to rehab drunk
She was once part of the infamous hard-drinking Primrose Hill set – and was the first of the gang to get sober.
But toilet heiress Davinia Taylor has revealed she didn’t particularly enjoy going to rehab. In fact, she got so drunk flying to the clinic in 2009 that she blacked out, earning her a lifetime ban from British Airways.
The 46-year-old actress says she wanted to have “one last hurrah” on the flight after her late mother Lynne made her clean up her act.
Speaking to former Downing Street press secretary Andy Coulson about his podcast Crisis What crisis?she said: ‘I was banned by British Airways because of my behavior on the plane flying to South Africa.’
Loo roll heiress Davinia Taylor has revealed she didn’t particularly enjoy going to rehab. In fact, she got so drunk flying to the clinic in 2009 that she blacked out, earning her a lifetime ban from British Airways.
The 46-year-old actress says she wanted to have ‘one last hurray’ on the flight after her late mother Lynne made her clean up her act
When asked what she did, she replied: ‘I don’t know, I blacked out. It was obvious they had alcohol on the plane, so I thought, okay, finally hurray.
“As anyone who has been through addiction will understand, this is what your brain will tell you to do, one last hurray, this is it. It’s so crazy.
“Instead of saying, ‘Okay, now we’re going to take off the cast and get on the plane,’ oh no, no, no, I’m going to make it a little bit harder on myself.”
Ms Taylor, who used to party with the likes of Kate Moss, Sadie Frost and Jude Law, says she arrived at the rehab center in a “completely confused state”, so confused that she wrote her name backwards, which she describes as “deranged”.
During her time there, she was forced to hand over custody of her son Gray to her estranged husband Dave Gardner, David Beckham’s best friend. The couple divorced the following year. She has not drunk alcohol since her stay and had three more sons.
Ms Taylor, a former Hollyoaks star whose father Alan made millions from the AM Paper empire, is now a wellbeing entrepreneur. She also said she has ADHD, which she combats with what she calls “biohacks” such as sunlight and cold showers.
Listen to Davina Taylor’s speech on the podcast Crisis, what crisis? hosted by Andy Coulson here: