Former Bachelorette Gabby Windey had her first experience with alcohol when she was a teenager.
“I started drinking at 13,” Windey, 34, revealed on the Thursday, March 13, episode of her “Long Winded” podcast. “I was throwing up out of my nose. … It’s the Midwest or something.”
She continued, “I don’t know what went wrong; I assume everyone was like that, but I guess not.”
Windey, who grew up in Illinois before relocating to California as an adult, further noted that drinking makes her “a little more uninhibited.”
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“If we’re going to go out for a drink and have fun, I’m afraid that other people are already thinking that I can’t have fun, so then I think about it like that,” she said. “I take everything on, internalize it, personalize it, project it [and] whatever the f— you want to call it.”
The Traitors winner added, “If everyone’s sober, then it’s like, ‘Whatever,’ but it kind of depends. I think, obviously, I need to change my mindset.”
Windey has since cut back on her alcohol consumption since recovering from bronchitis in February.
“Normally I’ll go out and at least have, like, one or two drinks but I didn’t because I knew I had to get better for this [podcast],” Windey said. “I was like, ‘Why am I so happy? Why am I grateful for my life for once? What has been the big change?’ It’s not, like, I’ve been binge-drinking every night, it’s not. It’s just the depressant lasts a while for me because there’s already some f—ed-up s— in there. I don’t have enough dopamine.”
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Windey has also been trying to have more fun while sober.
“I get real judgy as f— if everybody else is drinking around me,” she quipped. “Then, I’m gonna sit back and be, like, [looking at them with my arms crossed]. Actually, I like being around drunk people ‘cause I know they’re not going to remember anything so I can think and say whatever I want and it doesn’t matter. I just need to channel that more.”
Windey also revealed how her wife, comedian Robby Hoffman, impacted her changing mindset. (The twosome eloped in January, publicly revealing the news earlier this month.)
“Robby’s like, ‘You’re just not meant to be drinking,’” Windey said. “I’m like, ‘Totally.’ While I’m drinking it’s fine because I get loose as a goose and I say things … that get around [to other people afterward].”
