The Traitors' Gabby Windey Says She Started Drinking at 13: 'I Was Throwing Up Out of My Nose'

Mar. 15, 2025

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The formerBachelorette, 34, invited herTraitorsseason 3 castmateCarolyn Wigeronto the March 13 episode of herLong Windedpodcast, and the two had an honest conversation about their relationships with substances.

Wiger, 38, shared that she got sober at 22 and now works as a licensed drug and alcohol counselor. Windey said she’s “so interested in sobriety” because “I really do I want to stop drinking.”

“I’m so depressed that it like, it will make me depressed,” Windey continued. “Not even the day after but like, a week. Like, and you won’t even notice it.”

Windey also shared that she began drinking alcohol at a young age.

“I started drinking at 13,” she said. “I was throwing up out of my nose.”

As for Wiger, theSurvivoralum said she used a fake ID to go to bars and become “a stripper when I was 16.”

“I thought I had to change my personality too because I blamed my personality on drugs and alcohol,” Wiger said of getting sober.

Windey acknowledged that her behavior changes when she drinks alcohol, too, pointing to a recent dinner where she spilled the tea withTraitorscostarBoston Rob Marianoafter drinking a couple glasses of wine.

Boston Rob Mariano on ‘The Traitors’ season 3.Euan Cherry/Peacock via Getty

Euan Cherry/Peacock via Getty

TheBacheloralum didn’t initially expect to have anything in common with Mariano. 49. “We were sitting on the end, just him and I, and I’m like, ‘Great, what the f— are we going to talk about?'” Windey wondered.

Despite the fun evening, Windey realized: “I wouldn’t gossip with Boston Rob if I wasn’t two glasses of wine deep.”

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Windeywon season 3ofThe Traitorsalongside fellow FaithfulsDolores Catania,Dylan EfronandIvar Mountbatten. She called the experience “great” on her podcast, but suggested she wouldn’t do it again.

Windey also teased that “it makes me nervous that too many people like me now” after going onThe Traitorsand exposing herself to a new audience.

“I want the people who don’t get it not to get it,” Windey explained. “I want to piss off the right people. Literally the right and the right. But it’s like, if too many people like me, they’re going to be disappointed, they’re going to come here and be so pissed at me. Like, I don’t want, I don’t need everyone to love me. This is like, too much pressure. I need to be accepted for who I am. But then, the more eyes like the scarier.”

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The Traitorsseason 3 is streaming now on Peacock.

source: people.com