My lifestyle was chaotic but big change means I can now afford to travel the world
Daily mirror | January 6, 2026 10:40 PM CST
While many of us will be feeling the excesses of Christmas and New Year's, fewer will have taken things as far as Lauren Burnison did back when she was drinking.
After growing up in Belfast in the grips of the Troubles, where a "blanket of fear" hung over everything, Lauren "bounded headlong into a void of self-loathing and addiction". She left home and moved to Edinburghand Buenos Aires during her years of "chaos".
On New Year's Eve 2002, things came to a heady, violent peak when her "testosterone-fuelled gang of twenty-something-year-old" pals clashed with some strangers on a booze-fueled bender on the streets of Argentina.
Today, things could not be more different for Lauren.
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