Chris Stapleton on getting sober without rehab: ‘I got into a drinking contest with myself — and I lost’
nypost.comtold GQ.The “You Should Probably Leave” hitmaker revealed that he’s been sober for years now, and these days his pre-show ritual consists of vocal exercises alone.“I like to tell people that I got into a drinking contest with myself in my 20s, and I lost,” he said.“When you’re younger, you feel like you have to do certain things in order to occupy some of these spaces, to make yourself feel like you’re legit.
You want to feel things. You want to be able to write about things authentically.”Stapleton candidly opened up about his journey on his upcoming album “Higher,” specifically on a track titled “The Bottom.”“If somebody working a different kind of job drank themselves to death in the name of being better at that job, it wouldn’t make sense to anybody,” he adds. “We wouldn’t say, ‘Oh, he must have been the greatest electrician who ever lived.’”The 8-time Grammy winner then revealed that he and his wife, Morgane, have started going to therapy sessions together.
Read more on nypost.com