Celebrity Sobriety

Celebrity Sobriety

‘Pretty Wrecked’: Author On Addiction and Recovery

VIDEO – BOOKS MATTER – April 25, 2024 - From a teenage alcoholic and drug addict to a shining success and celebrating 28 years of sobriety. A Main Line wife and mother details her road to recovery and the lessons s... Read More...

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Spencer Mathews On How He Became An Alcoholic

AUDIO – MADE IN CHELSEA – April 13, 2024 - “It was four Big Macs, a six-pack of Stella...” Vogue Williams’ husband Spencer Mathews has described how he became an alcoholic whilst working as a banker in London. The ... Read More...

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Drew Barrymore: ‘We have all been such hedonists’

FAMILY AFFAIR – April 13, 2024 - Drew Barrymore takes the most pride in her sobriety. “I think, for me, stopping drinking is one of the most honoring things I can do to the Barrymore name because we have al... Read More...

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Taylor Swift Sings About Being ‘a functioning alcoholic’

HIGHEST FUNCTIONING EVER – April 25, 2024 - Taylor Swift’s song “Fortnight” is getting a lot of attention for lyrics that include the line “I was a functioning alcoholic.” Swift hasn’t said whether she’s si... Read More...

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Mother, Laura McKowen Is An Open Book About Her Sobriety

VIDEO – WRITTEN FROM THE HEART – April 23, 2024 - After her first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, the Marblehead mom spent a year working on her sobriety before she was finally able to stop drinking for good. He... Read More...

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Sam Evian’s ‘Plunge’ is His Most Personal LP

AUDIO – HEAR THE MUSIC – April 13, 2024 - Scott Simon talks with musician and indie producer Sam Evian about his fourth LP, “Plunge.” Evian says the record is his most personal yet and it touches on themes of famil... Read More...

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Frankie Grande Thanks Sis for Supporting His ‘Sobriety Journey’

SHE’D NEVER DRAG HIM DOWN – April 10, 2024 - Ariana Grande is a gifted vocalist, songwriter and actress, but before she was any of those things, she was a great sister. To prove it, Frankie Grande posted a swe... Read More...

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Jodie Foster Recalls Telling Downey Jr. How Scared She Was For Him

WHAT GOES AROUND... – April 9, 2024 - In a cover profile of RDJ for Esquire’s April/May issue, the 61-year-old actress recalled, “I took him aside at one point during filming and said, ‘Look, I couldn’t be mor... Read More...

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Dean McDermott’s Inspiring Message About Celebrity Sobriety Divorce

VIDEO – ONE MARRIAGE AT A TIME – April 10, 2024 - “Alcohol made me feel good enough. I started feeling good enough until it got to a point where it didn’t -- I ended up in isolation,” he told the outlet. “It ended ... Read More...

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Zoltan Bathory Praised Marilyn Manson’s Sobriety Ahead of Upcoming tour

HAS HE MADE HIS AMENDS? – April, 2024 - “Manson hasn’t been out on the road for a while... A lot of people want to see him, at one point he was one of the most iconic artists on planet Earth, so he’s back on... Read More...

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Danny Murphy On His Cocaine Habit

LIFE ON THE LINE – April 10, 2024 - After losing the “adrenaline” of playing the sport at the highest level, he told the Ben Heath Podcast that problems became “huge” and he turned to drugs for “escapism”. “Ho... Read More...

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Charlie Huston On Writing His Way To Sobriety

WORDS MATTER – April 9, 2024 - On August 10th, 2023 I was given a small metal chip to celebrate a year of sobriety. It was the first full year of sobriety I’d experienced since 1977. I’d gotten high for the fi... Read More...

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How Sober Housing Project Became Amy Winehouse’s Legacy

WISH SHE WAS HER TO SEE IT – April 14, 2024 - There is so much tragedy in the story that Katya, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, finds it too painful. But in her own journey to recovery fro... Read More...

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Anne Lamott Reflects on Life, Death and Enduring the Beams of Love’

VIDEO TED TALK – SHE’S A ROCK STAR – April 5, 2024 - Anne Lamott has always been honest about the messiest parts of her life, from addiction to parenthood. Now she reflects on the beautiful—and complicated—realitie... Read More...

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Tiffany Haddish: Sobriety Helped Her Realize She’s Been ‘TOO NICE’

BALANCE IS KEY – April 8, 2024 - The comedian/actress said drinking activated her filter since she would think and want to say hurtful things but restrained herself. “Now I say it. If I think it, I say it. ... Read More...

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Eminem Celebrates 16 Years of Sobriety

LOCAL HERO – April 20, 2024 - On Saturday, April 20, the “Lose Yourself” rapper, 51, marked 16 years sober, sharing the milestone on Instagram with fans. The Grammy winner — who was born Marshall Mathers — pos... Read More...

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Fans Recall How Indigo Girls Helped Them Through Sexuality and Sobriety

VIDEO – TOGETHERNESS WORKS – April 10, 2024 - There’s another layer to the duo’s impact. “I’ve been clean and sober 29 years now,” one fan shared. “They were almost like this unspoken permission that it was OK to ... Read More...

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Johnny Knoxville Embraces ‘Sweet Dreams’ Sobriety Story

VIDEO – WE ALL SHOULD – April 11, 2024 - “My father was an alcoholic and I get to play softball half the movie,” Knoxville told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. “Baseball was the only thing I was ever good at.”... Read More...

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Deryck Whibley Celebrates 10 Years Sober

ONE NOTE AT A TIME – April 6, 2024 - Call it a premonition or pure naïveté, but Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley knew for a fact when he was 16 that he was going to be famous someday. “I mean, I was just so obsessed with m... Read More...

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Kodak Black Celebrates Sobriety

PILLFREE – April 8, 2024 - The Florida rapper said he’s the happiest he’s ever been since he began to work on his addiction to Percocets. “Bro, my average was 40 Percocets. I’m telling y’all this man. I ain’t ... Read More...

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‘Terribly Strange to be 70’ by Anne Lamott

WE ALL GET THERE – April 10, 2024 - In my teens, already drinking and drugging, I didn’t expect to see 21, Then at 32, I got clean and sober, the miracle of my life from which all other blessings f... Read More...

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Natalie Eva Marie’s Troubled Past, Addiction & Sobriety

SOBERMANIA! – April 5, 2024 - Former WWE superstar Natalie Eva Marie dreamed of becoming a professional soccer player, but poor decisions led her down a dark path of addiction and alcohol abuse. “I feel like I was ju... Read More...

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Lily Allen Admits Her Secret to Staying Sober

THE ORACLE SPEAKS – April 8, 2024 - The singer, 37, has always been candid about her drink and drug abuse, saying quitting alcohol and drugs was the best decision she had ever made. She has now been sober for ... Read More...

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The Mass Appeal of Anne Lamott

SOBER ROLE MODEL – April 6, 2024 -I t will spoil nothing to tell you that Lamott closes “Somehow” with a quote from her favorite William Blake poem: “And we are put on earth a little space, that we may learn t... Read More...

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Kitty Noir Encourages Those Recovering from Addiction

THE CAT’S MEOW – April 6, 2024 - “A lot of my fans in recovery say that, ‘You’re super inspiring.’ They feel like they can really connect with me on a deeper level since we’re both in recovery and kind of get it,” Ji... Read More...

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These Were Amy Winehouse’s Tragic Final Words

SUPERSTARS DIE TOO – Feb. 10, 2024 - Amy Winehouse was tipsy but still able to hold a conversation. Dr. Christina Romete, the soulful British pop singer’s general practitioner, had been treating Winehous... Read More...

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Marian Keyes on How The Best-loved Novelist Beat Alcoholism

BRAINS AND FINESSE – March 30, 2024 - She has been famous, and sober – and married to Tony Baines – for exactly half her life. ‘I was always told when I got to 40, I wouldn’t care about other people’s opinions,’ s... Read More...

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Sunday Brunch Star Gaby Roslin’s Whirlwind Romance – Grief and Sobriety

IT’S ALL IN THE GAME – March 31, 2024 - Gaby, who first found fame in 1992 on The Big Breakfast, revealed last year that she completely cut alcohol out of her life - and she has never looked back. It’s been ov... Read More...

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Anthony Kim Details Issues With Addiction and ‘Scam Artists’

WITH AN EYE TOWARDS THE HOLE – April 3, 2024 - “Golf is important to me and not important to me at the same time,” Kim said. “I’ve had some very dark moments. I’ve had some very low moments. I felt very alone, even w... Read More...

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Rachel Leviss: ‘I’m Really proud of how far I’ve come!’

ONE YEAR AT A TIME – April 2, 2024 - She is about to celebrate one year of sobriety. The 29-year-old reality star has been turning to a string of healthy activities in recent months and revealed that Wednesday... Read More...

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