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Dec. 25, 2022 – “When things happen and you succeed beyond your wildest dreams and you’re playing all these great shows and the parties are going on,” he told Hoda Kotb on the Today show. “Then you’re married and you have kids. And all of a sudden your wife looks at you and says, ‘You know, you’re getting a little overboard and you need to make some decisions.’ It makes a big impact on you.”
Speaking with Esquire about his decision to get sober in 2008, McGraw revealed that he was “getting out of [bed] and going to the liquor cabinet and taking a big shot at 8:00 in the morning and thinking, ‘I have to wake the kids up.’ “
He called that his last straw, saying that he immediately went to Hill and told her what was happening. “I went straight to my wife and said, ‘This is where I’m at.’ I was scared,” he remembered. “She just grabbed me and hugged me and changed my life.”
