<p>Lotta Dann started drinking at age fifteen, trained as a journalist at age eighteen and spent the next twenty years perfecting both skills.</p>
<p>She built a successful career as a TV reporter, producer and director while simultaneously developing a remarkable aptitude for drinking a lot of alcohol.</p>
<p>Lotta became a household name when she confessed on national television in 2014 that she had a drinking problem. Her story on TVNZ’s <em>Sunday</em> programme struck a chord with thousands of women around the country.</p>
<p>She then literally wrote herself sober. Her blog, <em>Mrs D is Going Without</em>, began as a sort of personal diary but to her surprise people began commenting on it and telling her about their own struggles with alcohol.</p>
<p>And Lotta has never returned to drinking.</p>