Sober Confessions: Celebrities Who Announced They Quit Drugs, Alcohol

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Patricia Heaton

The Everyone loves Raymond star posted a video in July 2021, sharing an exciting milestone. “It’s July when we celebrate our nation’s freedom. Also celebrating three years of freedom from alcohol for me,” he said while on a three mile walk. “Just wanted to share that with you. And message me if any of you are thinking about doing that, any of you are doing it now and need some encouragement or anything at all. Have a great day.”

The Middle seren revealed that her children were the reason why she decided to be sober in a candid interview in September 2021 on the “The Heart of the Matter” Podcast..

While he drank shot the Ray Romanositcom led, which ran from 1996 to 2005, her drinking worsened after her four sons moved out. “I just noticed that if it was 5 pm and I had nothing to do the next day, I would automatically start drinking,” the actress said, adding that she “started looking really got on with drinking and thinking about it in a way I hadn’t done before.”

However, it was a birthday dinner for one of her sons that made her realize she had a problem.

“I was filling my glass with red wine throughout the five or six hours we were together. I don’t know how many glasses it was, and I felt completely sober and small,” the Carol’s Second Act said a star. “I was making a joke to the table, and I started saying, ‘You know, in our family it’s a tradition …’ And I couldn’t pronounce the word ‘tradition.’ I tried three times, and I couldn’t say the word.”

One of her sons noticed her inability to say the word in front of everyone. “And I was so humiliated,” she said, adding, “It shook me. I thought, ‘That’s it. That’s it’ … It had every element I needed. It had a logical element and this was saying, ‘Oh, my gosh, my sons have seen me drink too much.'”

The next day for breakfast, the Back to You the actress said she told a friend, “Well, you’re the first person I’ve told this to, but this is my first day of not drinking again.”