I tapped out of my recovery community, and then I relapsed in July. I can’t speak to what anyone else needs, but for me, it was going to inpatient treatment and 12-step meetings. Part of the 12-step literature states that we’re supposed to be anonymous.
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- “Some people can function [with drugs], I’m just dysfunctional and self-destructive,” the Slaughterhouse rapper explained.
- I knew that there would be headlines.
- Sobriety might not be easy (and Matty has been quick to point out he’s not completely sober by any means), but sometimes it’s okay to admit you miss your former crutch.
- Segura had suggested that Brown start a podcast, and Brown said that he was down with the idea as long as Segura and his team would produce it.
- A GQ profile on Lamar went out of the way to discuss his sobriety, and in an interview with HardKnockTV he talks about how, despite the fact that ScHoolboy Q and Ab-Soul blaze more trees than a Calabasas fire, he just never got into it.
Any sort of momentum I had locally as a musician just stopped. I was drinking excessively and smoking a ton of weed. I had kind of lost the will to live at that point.
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I stole it from my parents’ liquor cabinet, which was above the refrigerator. I had one shot and I wondered what two would feel like. And then I had two and I wondered what four would feel like. In July of 2019, Elton John shared a photo to social media of his Alcoholics Anonymous sobriety coin, announcing in the caption he’s been sober for the last 29 years. The coin has the phrase “one day at a time,” along with the words “unity,” “service” and “recovery” around the number 12. And while the particulars they spoke of may be specific to each of them, the wider predicaments and decisions and quandaries and insecurities and dilemmas they spoke of are the same ones that confront us all.
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Kanye West has had a tumultuous few years, but his difficult journey also included a successful sobriety journey. Kanye has spoken publicly about his struggles with alcohol and drug abuse in the past, and in 2019 he revealed that he is now a year sober. He credits his family, his faith and his newfound dedication to sobriety as the driving force behind his success. Today, artists of all genres — from ASAP Rocky to Moby to Keith Urban — can wear their sobriety as a badge of honor. It’s become accepted, maybe even expected.
He was able to turn his life around in 2011, and since then he has been open about his sobriety journey. Has even gone on to salute Eminem for the help he gave T.I. Andre 3000 may experiment with bow ties and suspenders, but he doesn’t toy with drugs. Word has it that Ice Cold hasn’t touched a mind-altering substance for nearly two decades.
- While drugs and music can be close bedfellows, we’d all much rather have our favorite artists alive and healthy than partying like a rockstar and headed toward an early grave.
- Not long ago Sosa finished his stint at a rehab center, though we know what his response was to that.
- I can’t speak to what anyone else needs, but for me, it was going to inpatient treatment and 12-step meetings.
- The younger Earle died in August 2020 at 38, while at about the same age, his father turned drug arrests in 1993 and ’94 into a commitment to recovery.
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Even for those interviewees who chose to pepper their accounts with wry humor and funny stories, these were not lighthearted interviews. According to his own social sober rappers media posts Ice-T is pretty much – if not entirely – sober. Like many, the artist struggled during the Covid pandemic, and during lockdown he relapsed.
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- What they have in common is that they are all, by their own account, for now, living sober.
- Change also came on tour with JPEGMAFIA.
- People want me to hate and scream and talk.
I’ve been doing this for years and been vilified. It’s not necessarily fair that the public feels the way it does. Celebrities have a right to privacy.
- There is power in sharing your stories openly and honestly.
- Indeed, the 50th anniversaries of the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison straddle 2020 and 2021.
- He also wanted to cut off the water and power.
- “I don’t do drugs. Period.” Joe Budden proclaimed in a 2013 interview with ThisIs50.com.
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In his younger years, Eminem had a serious pill-popping addiction, something which is generally well-known if you’re a fan of the MC. In an interview with Rolling Stone, he confessed that he’d be taking up to 60 Valium and 30 Vicodin pills per day during the peak of his addiction. In 2007 he experienced a near-fatal methadone overdose.
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In and out in just 47 seconds, ‘Straight Edge’ perfectly lays out his mantra. Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, has been sober since April 2008. Between 2002 and 2008, he struggled with an addiction to Ambien, Valium and Vicodin, according to Rolling Stone. I first took a drink of alcohol when I was 14 years old.
