‘If I Did Not Get Sober, I Wouldn’t Be Here Anymore’

YOU’RE NOT THE ONLY ONE –

Jan. 2, 2024 – The Summer House star shares how he turned his life around after a scary rock-bottom moment. I had lukewarm Milwaukee Best Light, and I remember being so sick from a couple. I’ve done a lot of reflecting on my alcohol journey, and oddly enough, my first experience, I hated it.

I am very outgoing and social, but I was a fish out of water in college. I joined a fraternity freshman year at Syracuse, and that was a crash course in binge drinking. The initiation process alone, I mean, unbelievable amounts of alcohol were consumed. [And] I noticed that I could drink a lot. I felt like I had a tolerance like a lot of others, but I always found that the next day I could bounce back pretty quick. I almost didn’t feel like drinking 20 beers the night before was that bad, because I felt great the next day.

And if Syracuse was a crash course in binge drinking, New York City was a masterclass in debauchery and late nights, accessible drugs, and terrible decisions. I developed this complex where I thought I was the man after like two whiskeys or a couple beers and a line of coke. That would be the ultimate Carl. I’m on point, funny, I’m interesting, I’m intelligent—but then it wouldn’t be two whiskeys anymore. It would be like, I need five whiskeys and an 8 ball.