Dax Shepard helped Macklemore feel less alone during a sobriety failure.
On Monday April 19, Macklemore, born Ben Haggerty, openly discussed his struggle with sobriety, admitting that he had relapsed during the COVID-19 pandemic on the Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast.
In September, Shepard opened up about his own battle with opioids after surgery for a motorcycle accident, revealing he had become addicted to his strong prescription pills after 16 years of abstinence. The “Thrift Shop” rapper admitted that Shepard’s public recognition of his drug problems “resonated” with him as he was recovering again from a sobriety setback.
“I really, really resonated with the episode where you talked about your relapse, and… I cried,” he shared during the interview. “It made me feel, as someone who had relapsed again, like a month or two before, that I am not alone.”
“The beautiful thing about recovery is that when we do this it makes others feel like they’re not alone, and they can actually open up and share about it. It made me feel like someone who had relapsed again, like a month or two before, that I’m not alone, it’s OK that I did this again, that’s what we (the addicts) let’s do … “
Macklemore entered rehab in 2008 and 2011. He explained to Shepard that he no longer counts how many days or months he’s been clean and that he’s constantly working to improve himself.
“A cliché of recovery is that you haven’t lost your 16, I mean, I think you say that in this episode … and I think that’s something I have to come back to,” a the rapper told Shepard.
“Look, I’ve been in and out of (recovery meeting) rooms for 11 years, I don’t know how much time I have left today, seven, eight months, I don’t really count anymore,” he said. he continued. “I’ve spent most of the last 11 years recovering, and that has made me who I am, and yes, there have been times in my life in the last 11 years that are really dark, that have caused a lot of pain. pain to my wife, which caused a lot of pain to the people who love me, a lot of worry, I compromised my life and the others around me, I did things that I am not proud of, but I have this foundational level of 10 years of recovery, and I’m very proud of it. “
Macklemore revealed last week that he and his wife Tricia Davis are expecting their third child this summer. They share two daughters: Sloane Ava Simone and Colette Koala.
