ENJOYING THE GOOD LIFE –
Aug. 4, 2024 – On Saturday (August 3),the 46-year-old musician took to his social media to share a quote from Thomas Edison, “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time”, and he included the following message: “7 years today, no drugs no booze. Former THREE DAYS GRACE and current SAINT ASONIA frontman Adam Gontier is celebrating the seventh anniversary of his getting sober.
A little over two years ago, Gontier spoke to the Razor 94.7 and 104.7 radio station about the turning point in his battle with substance abuse issues. He said: “It was pretty recent, actually. In 2017, I went into a treatment center. I was doing some solo acoustic shows in Canada, and I had relapsed, and I was using at the time. So this wasn’t that long ago at all. And at the time, my wife was pregnant [with our first child]. So we had a weird situation where I was on the road and my tour manager and some friends intervened after one of the shows and basically sent me to Nashville to a treatment center. So I ended up there, and it was a really rough situation. I ended up in an institution for a couple of weeks because my mind wasn’t right. And at that time, when I was in the hospital, my son was born in Minnesota. So I wasn’t there for him being born. And when I started to come around in the hospital and I saw the picture before they told me he was born and stuff, that was the moment for me that I … I mean, it’s no longer about me. So since that day I’ve been sober, and [I have] no plans on going back to a dark place anytime soon. I don’t want my kids to see that version of me ever.”
