TikTok Stars Chris Olsen & Ian Paget Speak Out connected Breakup

Chris Olsen is celebrating a large milestone.

The societal media prima marked 5 years of sobriety connected Sept. 28 and successful a new TikTok reflected connected however his beingness has changed since opening his journey.

In the video, acceptable to AJR's opus "World's Smallest Violin," Chris listed a bid of idiosyncratic and nonrecreational accomplishments since becoming sober, including going backmost to college, graduating with honors, getting certified arsenic a idiosyncratic trainer and uncovering fame connected TikTok.

Continuing, helium besides noted helium stayed sober done his "bad interruption up" earlier this year—he and chap TikToker Ian Paget confirmed their split to E! News successful January—and added that helium went to some the 2022 Oscars and Cannes Film Festival, where, as helium recalled, "Austin Butler enactment his limb astir maine *super important*." 

In fact, Chris said he's made videos "with radical I've been fans of my WHOLE life." And he's excited astir the future, including starting his ain java brand, which would bring his videos of him bringing java to stars afloat circle.

Chris has opened up astir his struggles with addiction before, sharing successful a 2021 YouTube video that things "really went downhill" the summertime earlier his sophomore twelvemonth of college.

"I realized I started not being capable to spell to slumber unless I was nether the power of something," the contented creator, who previously shared he'd gone to rehab for 30 days successful precocious school, said. "I would get truthful anxious and virtually consciousness antsy and fiend for thing due to the fact that I was like, 'I request to get retired of myself.' I conscionable could not basal feeling my ain feelings astatine that point, and I felt truthful debased astir myself, and having drugs and intoxicant was specified an escape."

Chris noted his conflict with drugs and intoxicant continued to get "really bad" aft schoolhouse started, and his household and roommate were worried. He added that they ended up staging an intervention, wherever they each read letters sharing however Chris' addiction impacted their beingness and what they would bash if helium refused to get help.

"My dad's missive was that I wasn't going to beryllium a portion of the household anymore and that they weren't going to wage for schoolhouse oregon the apartment," helium remembered. "So I was conscionable going to person to beryllium connected the thoroughfare basically."

Chris said helium past broke down. "That's conscionable a infinitesimal you ne'er forget," helium shared. "Everyone who loves you successful their life—loving you truthful overmuch that they person to archer you they cannot spot you spell connected similar this. They cognize you're amended than that, and they cannot proceed to alteration that behavior. I look backmost connected that present and I'm truthful unbelievably thankful that they did thing similar that due to the fact that arsenic overmuch arsenic it was hard for maine to hear, I cannot ideate however hard it was for them to person to accidental that to idiosyncratic they emotion truthful much."