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“It’s important for people who haven’t been sober to take the time to educate themselves on how to respect their sober friend. “There’s a lot of ‘why can’t you just have one drink?’ even from close friends when you’re at a birthday party or with a bunch of people who you used to party with,” she wrote. “With him, I saw a bright future after losing my father, and I was able to come out of a dark place.”Ĭheryl also mentioned that it wasn't easy for the people around her to adapt to her new lifestyle. “I don’t think I would have done it if we hadn’t made the commitment to get married,” she said.
We had very open conversations about our pasts and I know that being under so much pressure on a show like that can be detrimental to your mental health and sobriety.”Ĭheryl also wrote that her husband, Matthew Lawrence, was a big reason she decided to become sober. "I also knew how intense DWTS was and knew it would be a struggle for AJ as well, being newly sober.
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“When I started sharing more, the pandemic was in full force, and a lot of people were falling down that dark hole," she writes. “Being public about my struggle made me hold myself accountable,” she wrote.Ĭheryl said that it’s been really powerful to open up about her journey, especially in the middle of a pandemic. "Obviously subconsciously something, it was my body rejecting all this poison after drowning with it for so many years," she said.Ĭheryl said in an essay for Us Weekly that she only started being public about being sober a year ago. It got so bad that she broke into hives after taking a shot of whiskey during her engagement party. She even started developing allergic reactions to alcohol. I had no identity."Ĭheryl pointed out that her father, who was also an alcoholic, was on his deathbed with a glass of whiskey, and that contributed to her wanting to stop.
Cheryl said she had a “feeling of just emptiness, of feeling there's no purpose.I felt disgusting. "It was survival mode constantly, seven days a week for me."Ĭheryl said that she never had that one singular moment that made her get sober, but she realized she couldn’t continue living that way. "I was numbing-and we all know that that's a scary place," she said. and not drinking alone but she had trouble sticking to them. Photo credit: IngleDodd Media - Getty ImagesĬheryl called herself a “functioning drunk,” and noted that she tried to set rules for herself around drinking, like only drinking after 5 p.m.
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