Alcohol's a family disease..

Singer hid her addiction

- BY JULIA HUNT

LULU broke down in tears as she opened up about the family trauma that sparked her long battle with booze.

The 76-year-old pop legend has shared her decades-long struggle with drinking in her new memoir, If Only You Knew, and was tearful as she discussed it in a moving interview.

The Shout singer - who has been sober for 12 years - said alcoholism ran in her family.