THE RECOVERY SHOW –

Jan. 29,2021 – Though the Grammy Award-winner recalled years of shame, he reminded fans that there is always hope and self-growth in the road to recovery.

“You work these 12 steps and you get better,” he explained. “You figure out your character defects. You say you’re sorry to some people. You have a spiritual awakening and you go out and you carry that message to someone else.

The most meaningful step to healing is paying it forward, he says, which inspired him to start his own podcast, “The Recovery Show.”

“We have to destigmatize this whole (expletive). We have to talk about it. There’s a conversation around mental health right now and destigmatizing that,” he said. “Addiction and mental health go (expletive) hand-in-hand, and we need to make sure that people note that there’s resources, more funding to get people treatment that they need.”

He added if he hadn’t gotten professional help, he “wouldn’t be here right now”: “I was lucky enough to go to a facility for 30 days. People don’t know that it’s OK to go to treatment.”

In a 2015 cover story for Complex, Macklemore spoke about relapsing the previous year but revealed that the catalyst for his recovery was his now wife, Tricia Davis, who was pregnant.

“The sobriety was the wake-up call that I needed. And, as it always works, the minute that I start actively seeking recovery—not just sobriety, but recovery—music is there.”

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