TOMOHITO BATTLES ALCOHOLISM SINCE CHILDHOOD
Japanese royal PRINCE TOMOHITO has admitted he began battling alcoholism at the tender age of 15.
The Prince, who was the first ever member of Japan’s royal family to publicly admit he was suffering from the condition in June (07), has conceded he first started drinking in his teens, years below the country’s legal drinking age of 20.
He says, "I was first diagnosed as an alcoholic in my 30s. My hands were shaking and I couldn’t hold a cup of tea in the VIP room (of Tokyo’s Haneda airport)".
"I was immediately admitted to the Japan Red Cross Medical Center. I was in an awful condition, hallucinating auditory and visually for a week." And Tomohito admits his condition has worsened over recent years: "The volume I drank swelled rapidly over the past three years as there were various problems that drove me into a towering rage."
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