In October 2018, the American Pie star introduced he was one yr sober in a celebratory and inspiring Instagram submit.
“I first tried to get sober over 5 years in the past, when the burden of my obsession with booze and medicines turned too heavy for me to deal with,” he wrote on the time. “Seems this s–t is difficult.”
He continued, “After some matches and begins, I’ve managed to place collectively one yr of sobriety. I’m as pleased with it as something in my life. Should you’re struggling, know there’s assist. Don’t be ashamed. We will do that.”
Years later, he mirrored on his journey with habit and the lengths he went to cover the his wrestle.
“I’m going to remedy and ‘engaged on issues’ however in the meantime I’m leaving remedy, having simply had an excellent session, and I’m going to the liquor retailer and shopping for a fifth of vodka, ingesting it after which driving house,” he stated on a March 2024 episode of his spouse Jenny Mollen‘s All of the Fails podcast. “I knew tips on how to get wasted sufficient to the place I took myself out of the life equation, took myself out of the current, didn’t have to attach in a means that made me really feel issues.”
He added, “I had it discovered to a T. To not get too drunk the place I couldn’t have a dialog with you. I used to be changing these bottles within the bar on a regular basis.”
