Vargas, 51, spent several weeks in a treatment facility last fall. She acknowledged in an interview that aired in January on “Good Morning America” that she was an alcoholic and that it took years for her to admit it.
She said she had suffered panic attacks since she was a child.
“I dealt with that anxiety, and with the stress that the anxiety brought, by starting to drink,” she said in the interview.
Vargas has worked in network news since 1993, first with NBC and then ABC, which she joined in 1996.
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