Lucy Hale Opens Up About Her Decision to Get Sober After Being a ‘Textbook Binge Drinker’
glamour.comspoke candidly about her experience with addiction on Thursday's episode of podcast, revealing that this moment has actually been 13 years in the making. “I have never talked publicly about being sober—I have a little over a year of sobriety.
I have been working on getting sober since I was 20. I'm 33. It took time. It took patience with myself,” she said. “I just held on to that belief that the real Lucy came out when she was drinking.
It also quieted my mind…my brain just doesn't shut off and it's exhausting. I was a textbook binge drinker, blackout, wouldn't remember what I did or what I said, which is scary.”Hale went on to reveal that ever since she first tried drinking at age 14, she knew she had a problem with it and at no point in her life has she been a “normal, moderate drinker.” The actor explained, “I was willing to go to this crazy dark place every time.
Of course I tried to be a moderate drinker, just having two. I have an allergy to alcohol. I cannot drink. I view it as an allergy.
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