Lady A’s Charles Kelley, wife reveal breaking point that led to country star getting help for alcoholism
foxnews.comLady A’s Charles Kelley admitted when it came to his alcoholism, he was in denial because he wasn’t "living on the street" or "waking up in a bush." But his marriage to Cassie McConnell almost ended during a vacation to Greece after the country star stayed out all night drinking after a fight. "At that point, I thought I was fully flying back to the U.S., going to meet with a divorce attorney, like, that was it," McConnell told Gayle King in a CBS interview Wednesday. "Basically, we got in an argument, and I, like, just turned my phone off in, you know, the middle of nowhere and just took off and stayed up drinking with all these like random people I didn't know," Kelley explained. "I had one of those moments where I'm just like, 'I'm so sick of being told what to do,' and I turned off the phone.
I didn't realize I had eight of my friends looking for me all night." McConnell said she "never went to sleep" that night. In the morning, when he returned to the hotel, she told him he "needed help," and he said he "knew." "He made a plan with his manager, and he flew directly from Greece to treatment," she added.
And while McConnell thought their marriage was over, "I think ultimately when I thought about, well, we have a 7-year-old who is either going to be in my home all the time or he's gonna be half the time in a home with his dad, where I have no idea what's happening in that environment. "And, in order for me to take myself out of his life every day, it just never got to be that bad.
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