Anne Robinson has revealed she relocated to central London after her deteriorating eyesight left her feeling ‘isolated.’The Weakest Link presenter, 81, spent 40 years living in a converted barn in The Cotswolds, but now lives in an apartment in the capital just a few streets away from her daughter Emma.Anne said she ‘needed to try and keep her independence’, and worried she’d struggle with being alone when she realised she could no longer drive safely due to sight problems.She said: ‘Well, my eyes are not great to the point where I can’t really safely drive anymore and that means I’m rather isolated. So, it’s a sensible decision. ‘It’s not the greatest decision because me and the family have had a wonderful 40 years there. But that’s how it is so that’s what I’ve got to do. ‘I need to try and keep my independence because as we get older, we have to try and hang on to what we can.’ Anne Robinson has revealed she relocated to central London after 40 years of living in The Cotswolds after her deteriorating eyesight left her feeling ‘isolated’ (pictured in 2012)Speaking to Lorraine Kelly on Saga’s Experience is Everything podcast, Anne added: ‘I overlook Hyde Park, it’s actually a terrace with a tiny bedroom but it’s very nice overlooking Hyde Park and Emma and the boys and Liam are further along in a mews with three huge English setters. ‘So I am near her and I think she’s quite relieved.’During the interview, Anne also revealed she spoke about the ‘heavy’ remorse she had losing custody of her daughter Emma after battling an ‘appalling drink problem’.The former Countdown star lost custody of Emma, who at the time was just two years old, back in 1973, after she was ruled in court to be an unfit mother due to her alcoholism.Emma, who is now a television and radio producer, now has a close relationship with her mother, with the pair even living together during the Covid lockdown.Anne said: ‘ My mother was amazing, but she was also a very bad drinker. And if you grow up with someone with a drink problem, the one thing you’re absolutely determined is that you won’t do the same. ‘And of course I did. I developed the most appalling drink problem in my 20s. It was so bad that when I was divorcing my husband, he fought and won custody of Emma, which was the most shameful, and remains the most shameful thing, in my life. ‘I really had to pick myself up from that and somehow start again from quite a low rate.’ The presenter said she ‘needed to try and keep her independence’, and worried she’d struggle with being alone when she realised she could no longer drive safely due to sight problemsSpeaking to Lorraine Kelly on Saga’s Experience is Everything podcast, Anne shared: ‘I think the shame is quite heavy. And I realised I had to stop drinking, which I did in the next couple of years. ‘Slowly she was mine again, but it was quite a tough start… we had to start again when she was five or six, to really build a relationship which is untouchable now and has been for years and years and years.’In 2022, Anne quit Channel 4’s Countdown after just a year and reports at the time suggested there was an on-set feud with Rachel Riley – who Anne was rumoured to find ‘too noisy’ – and Susie Dent, as well as a rumoured pay dispute. Speaking in an interview with the Telegraph, Anne denied a falling-out between the pair as she explained: ‘It’s just a story. Rachel was a bit talkative when I was interviewing the contestants but once we shut her up it was fine.’The Weakest Link star previously revealed she quit Countdown over a pay dispute and confessed she insisted on ‘noisy’ Susie Dent and Rachel Riley’s mics being switched off.She explained that despite being offered a pay rise, she did not want to join Channel 4’s payroll and so decided to walk away from her role as host.Of the rift with her co-stars Rachel and Susie she admitted that she had been annoyed by their time-keeping and noisiness.But she later said: ‘They’re both brilliant at what they do. I mean they really, really are. Channel 4 are incredibly lucky to have them. And there isn’t a rift.’It was me wanting everyone to be quiet in the studio. I like everyone turning up on time and quiet, quiet, quiet. So we did have to iron that out. But that’s it.’