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Chrissy Teigen revealed she is 52 days sober from alcohol after having recently relapsed.
The model and TV personality opened up about how her slip-up with sobriety occurred in an over 400-word statement shared on Instagram Jan. 27, where she assured the public that she is doing better than ever.
After over a year sober, she explained that she wanted to establish a healthy relationship with drinking so she could participate in mundane aspects of life like having a glass of wine with her husband, John Legend, during date night.
“I went back to drinking. I promised myself it would be in a ‘mindful’ way,” she wrote. “To be able to toast on birthdays. How lucky I am to have the life I have — I want to enjoy it! And I think that was my first problem. Tying drinking to reward or like some sort of life prize. Soon it became the kind of drinking I’m all too familiar with,” Teigen wrote.
Suddenly, she found herself drinking from “6pm, to 5, to 4, to aw hell, it’s lunch, why not” before having a frightening realization to herself, saying “here we go again.”
“We aren’t talking the kind of drinking where you slur your words and miss a step on the stairs. It was just quiet and consistent,” she said. “I missed being able to pick up my keys for a last-minute grocery run. But it wasn’t messy enough yet to stop.”
Chrissy Teigen explains why she became sober again
Teigen credited friend Carl Radke as the reason she stopped drinking again, thanking the “Summer House” star for his “honesty and openness around his own journey with sobriety.”
She also explained that she decided to quit drinking when she learned she could be a judge for the revival of the talent TV show “Star Search.” She said there was “absolutely” no way she would be a part of the show while having “alcohol in my dressing room.”
“I think the biggest difference between now and the first time is that there’s no pomp around it. The first time I put my foot down, it was EXCITING. The momentum was fun and kept me going on the right track. The second time… I dunno. I dunno if everyone around you kind of loses faith or if you do yourself, or a mix of both,” she said.”
The author said she has no desire to turn back to drinking, adding that even while sober, she can “still be funny. Still be stupid. Still be wildly nervous. Anxious as a (expletive). And I can get through it all without it.”
Teigen first opened up about her sobriety in late 2020, crediting Holly Whitaker’s book “Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol” as the motivator to give up booze.
“I was done with making an (expletive) of myself in front of people (I’m still embarrassed), tired of day drinking and feeling like (expletive) by 6, not being able to sleep,” Teigen explained in an Instagram story in December 2020.