Andrew Lloyd Webber recently quit drinking after noticing the effects his substance abuse struggles had on his family. "You think it's a secret, but it's not. Everybody knows. I started getting into a downhill spiral," Lloyd Webber, 78, told The Times of London in a Saturday, April 19, profile. "About 18 months ago, the family were in a desperate state. My wife was feeling she couldn't go on." Lloyd Webber, who has been married to Madeleine Gurdon since 1991, further called himself a "recovering alcoholic.