The Blue singer went through a bad period in his life five years ago when he was made bankrupt and became a national hate figure after a disastrous appearance on Celebrity Big Brother.
But he has battled back from the brink of downing a bottle of whisky a night to appear on this year's Strictly Come Dancing.
Writing in the band's tell-all book All Rise, Lee said: "If I had to quantify it, I could safely say at that point in my life, I was drinking around a bottle of whisky a night."
He added: “It was all going in the wrong direction as they say, and I’d had warnings from my doctor, but if I’m honest I wasn’t paying them any heed because I wanted to get properly lost.”
He previously told The People that he struggled with alcoholism after downing up to two bottles of whisky a day.
Lee would start drinking at midday before working his way through whatever alcohol he could get his hands on.
"I’d start drinking at noon," he told the newspaper.
“I’d go to buy a pint at my local shop with a cap on and come out with a bottle of whisky. I would drink a bottle and a half, maybe two, a day. It was hard and fast.
"That's when I knew I had a problem was when I was going in for milk to make a latte when I got home but I was making an Irish coffee instead."
He blamed his drinking on the breakdown of his seven year relationship with the mother of his son.
Lee said he drank to "numb the pain" before self-medicating with booze and anti-depressants.
His relationship breakdown happened just before his ill-fated appearance on Celebrity Big Brother where he was caught in a love triangle and became public enemy number one.
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