He said someone had written on Gurrumul's chart that he was a drinker, when he is not.
His parents divorced (his father, at least in the account offered in the memoir, was a hopeless binge drinker), and when he was eleven he joined his mother in England.
He was a drinker [addict] and when he was drunk, he hit me.
A hard drinker who drank even harder when he was hired as musical director to the Everly Brothers in the early 70s, Zevon was sucked into alcoholism.
When he was a drinker, they said, he was an extreme drinker.
Back when, he was the absinthe drinker of rock 'n' roll, the Victorian consumptive, the fur trapper, the Indian guide.
The Bush that Bush wants to present is a decent man, personally courteous, honest enough to admit his flaws – including his boorishness back when he was a heavy drinker, once asking an elegant female friend of his parents, "So what's sex like after 50?" – and who did what he thought was right.
Relatives tended to be sympathetic and supportive if they were also concordant drinkers, or if they felt that alcohol was alleviating suffering: " When he was unable to walk any longer we bought it for him because he needed it.
His father died when he was 10, and the teenage Sewell was an enthusiastic smoker, drinker and bong smoker.
House also frequently drinks liquor when he is not on medical duty, and classifies himself as a "big drinker".
