While many celebrated Valentine’s Day, Lucy Hale’s sobriety anniversary was what made her day as she talks about her struggle with addiction in a recent interview.
In 2017, before Lucy Hale’s sobriety, her addiction to alcohol was discussed in an interview. The movie star admitted she was on a journey to becoming better.
One way to overcome her troubles with the bottles was to surround herself with “better people.” Six years later, Lucy Hale’s sobriety became a reality.
For Valentine’s Day, instead of celebrating a special person in her life, fans were greeted with a Lucy Hale sobriety post.
In the Instagram snap, she shared a cake with rainbow toppings and a “1 Year” decorated on it. She tagged it as an alternative Valentine’s Day post, adding:
“This is a post about self-love and about the greatest thing I’ve ever done.”
Lucy Hale’s sobriety clocked one year on January 2, but she chose to keep it private. However, she believed in the power of motivation and decided to share.
A few days after her power-packed post, she becomes honest with Steven Bartlett on The Diary of a CEO podcast, detailing her struggles for the first time.
Lucy Hale Opens Up For The First Time About Eating Disorders, Relationships & Addiction
Actress @lucyhale has been starring in our favourite blockbusters for over a decade.
But behind the 'it' girl characters, things weren't so Pretty.
LISTEN NOW 👉🏽 https://t.co/aMsIrKHPh7 pic.twitter.com/iEkXQFQ6gk
— Steven Bartlett (@StevenBartlett) February 23, 2023
Lucy Hale’s Addiction Was a “Self-Destructive” Way to Cope
Breaking her loyalty to privacy, the 33-year-old How I Met Your Mother star told Barlett she was in a “dark, disgusting, and scary” place for some time.
She regretted her past choices and reliance on alcohol which was only used as a coping mechanism— Hale termed it “self-destructive.”
Shockingly, the situations around her did not influence her. She tried to change for her mom and career and even lost a friend to alcohol, yet she was stuck in her ways.
But one hidden truth revealed on the podcast was that Lucy Hale’s addiction was to knock off a feeling, not her sobriety or inability to do without alcohol.
She chimed:
“Alcohol isn’t the problem, the problem is this feeling inside of me.”
On top of that, she lost confidence in herself and battled with an eating disorder because of society’s expectations of a woman’s body.