Liam Payne Is 6 Months Sober After Rehab Stay: 'I Was In Bad Shape'

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Liam Payne is opening up about his sobriety and in a new video on YouTube, revealed to fans that he’s now six months sober.

The 29-year-old One Direction singer got honest with fans about his struggles, sharing that he headed to Louisiana to spend 100 days in rehab. Head inside to find out more about Liam’s rehab stay and sobriety journey… Liam shared that after his stint in the facility, he feels like “I’ve got more of a grip on life and everything that was getting away from me, I just feel like I’ve got more of a handle on it.” “I just needed to take a little bit of time out for myself actually because I kind of became somebody who I didn’t really recognize anymore,” he confessed. “I’m sure you guys didn’t either.

I was in bad shape up until that point and I was really happy to kind of put a stopper to life and work.” While he was away during that time, Liam added that he didn’t even have a phone so he could focus on his well being. “I didn’t have my phone for nearly 100 days,” he said. “I didn’t connect with the outside world at all.

Upon leaving, the hardest part was turning the phone back on because it was a little bit scary.” After his time at the facility, Liam still had “little things that I had to deal with for myself”, he says, before opening up about the “aha” moment he had that encouraged him to stop drinking altogether. “I watching this beautiful symphony, I was having a drink, and I thought, ‘You know what, this isn’t really serving me at all, I don’t really need this right now,’” Liam shared. “It’s the first time I’ve ever put a drink down and gone to someone else, ‘You finish this, I don’t need this right now.’ And I haven’t picked one up since, which has almost been 6 months, which I’m excited about.” “