Lucy Hale Says “Life Feels So Good Now” After Getting Sober
Lucy Hale Says "Life Feels So Good Now" After Getting Sober: "I'm Choosing Me" https://t.co/H12sXD1kfb
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 13, 2024
This weekend, Hale will accept the Humanitarian Award at the 34th annual awards luncheon at Friendly House, an L.A.-based addiction recovery center.
Lucy Hale, who is two-and-a-half years sober, made the choice to do everything she could to get sober on Jan. 2, 2022.
Hale recalled hitting rock bottom at age 32 shortly before making the big decision. “I always had a desire to change, but with any form of addiction, you become powerless to this obsession,"
For Hale, addiction started in her teens. “Since a very young age, I always felt alone and misunderstood, alcohol shut my brain off. It worked for me for a while, until it turned really dark.”
The journey to sobriety involved many turns. “It took many, many, many years, many relapses, many dark moments, many falling on my face quite literally, but figuratively as well to figure out what was working in my life, finding out why I was drinking, because removing alcohol is just one part of it.”
If she had continued, "I would’ve lost everything I cared about.”
Nearing three years later, Hale said sobriety now can still be painful and uncomfortable, but that her life feels so good now that she wouldn’t give that up for anything.
“I still have to make the choice every day like, ‘Okay, today I’m staying sober and today I’m choosing me,’ but that goes deeper than just not drinking. I can’t believe I’m at a place in my life where I can talk about the things that used to bring me so much shame.”
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