Sleepwalking mum: ‘I booze, drive and attack my husband in my sleep!’

When Gill Vickers goes to sleep at night, she has no idea if she’ll end up binge drinking, attacking her husband or even trying to drive her car.

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by Emily Cope |
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The 55-year-old suffers from a rare medical condition that means she’s sleepwalked over 500 times in the last two years – with no recollection of her actions the next morning.

Housewife Gill, who lives in Cheshire with husband Mark, 55, and has two children, Naomi, 34, and Francis, 32, says: “During the night I change into a completely different person.

"SAVING MY SICK PUP'S LIFE HELPED ME FIGHT ANOREXIA"

"I’ve cooked eggs and bacon in my sleep, eaten a packet of biscuits in bed, and bizarrely even created art out of food.

"I’ve even driven the car twice, which is terrifying. I always wake up in bed with no idea of what’s happened.

Gill stabbed knives into the chopping board in an angry rage while asleep

“Mark and I make a joke of it, but I’ve often been scared to go to bed – Mark padlocks the front door at night now.

"Mark has had to lock himself in the bedroom just in case, and I’ve been known to wrestle with him in a bid to leave the house, or stab all the kitchen knives into the breadboard in an angry rage.

"Thankfully, I’m taking strong medication to help and I only sleepwalk around three times a month.”

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