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Macklemore is feeling glorious for his accidental to commencement again.
The musician—born Ben Haggerty—opened up astir relapsing during the pandemic aft being 14 years sober and revealed however helium recovered a way backmost to sobriety.
"I americium a recovering addict and alcoholic and person been for the past 14 years," helium shared connected The Tonight Show Feb. 28. "And past COVID happened and a large portion of my betterment assemblage is going to carnal 12 measurement meetings. Once those stopped, I was unsocial and the illness of addiction was like, 'Yo, this is crazy. The satellite has stoped you tin get high.'"
Macklemore explained that helium had "stopped doing the things that prevented maine from getting precocious and I listened to that voice."
"It was a mates weeks of a relapse and precise painful," the 39-year-old recalled. "And I'm inactive moving connected spot issues with myself and wrong my adjacent ellipse of friends."
However, the "Can't Hold Us" singer took distant a invaluable lesson.
"It decidedly was a reminder that immoderate I enactment successful beforehand of my betterment volition beryllium the archetypal happening that I lose," Macklemore admitted. "I think, for me, it's not a linear path. It's the 1 disease that tells you, ‘You don't person a disease.'"
He noted that on with trying his champion and making mistakes on the way, "There's some [mistakes] successful the aboriginal too, determination on the line, successful immoderate capableness with my beingness but I conscionable privation to beryllium capable to stock that with the radical that I emotion and that travel me."
Macklemore—whose 3rd workplace album Ben comes retired March 3—reflected connected however his struggles have played a portion in his music.
"The relapse was an accidental for maine to get backmost to that spot of, 'Okay, what went on?'" helium shared. "Let maine speech astir it and let's get vulnerable."
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Back successful January 2021, Macklemore opened up about the assistance helium received from the sober community.
"I didn't cognize that determination was a assemblage that was determination to support, emotion maine unconditionally, and had the aforesaid f--king disease," helium said during an quality connected People's Party with Talib Kweli. "It continues to prevention my life."
He noted, "That's the astir important happening successful the world, is being of work to different people, getting extracurricular of your ain f--king head."
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