Celebrities Who Announced They Are Sober, Gave Up Drugs, Alcohol

Miley Cyrus

Miley revealed that she had been sober for six months in June 2020 after undergoing vocal surgery in November 2019.

“I’ve been sober sober for the past six months. At the beginning, it was just about this vocal surgery … But I had been thinking a lot about my mother. My mom was adopted, and I inherited some of the feelings she had, the abandonment feelings and wanting to prove that you’re wanted and valuable,” she told Variety at the time. “My dad’s parents divorced when he was 3, so my dad raised himself. I did a lot of family history, which has a lot of addiction and mental health challenges. So just going through that and asking, ‘Why am I the way that I am?’ By understanding the past, we understand the present and the future much more clearly. I think therapy is great.”

She continued, “It’s really hard because especially being young, there’s that stigma of ‘you’re no fun.’ It’s like, ‘Honey, you can call me a lot of things, but I know that I’m fun.’ The thing that I love about it is waking up 100 percent, 100 percent of the time. I don’t want to wake up feeling groggy. I want to wake up feeling ready.”

Months after her initial admission, the songstress revealed that she “fell off” her sobriety journey amid the ongoing pandemic will talking with Zane Lowe during an Apple Music interview in November 2020.

“Well, I, like a lot of people, being completely honest, during the pandemic fell off,” she said. “[I] felt really a lot of … and I would never sit here and go, ‘I’ve been f–king sober,’ and I didn’t, and I fell off and I realized that I now am back on sobriety, two weeks sober, and I feel like I really accepted that time.”

About a month later, in December 2020, Miley further opened up struggling with her sobriety during the pandemic.

“I am always truthful,” she said during an interview on The Howard Stern Show. “And a lot of people, their sobriety broke during this time. I was one of them. Luckily, I haven’t gone back to using any drugs, but I was drinking during the pandemic.”

She continued, “I call it, I regressed … because, it’s really, for me, drinking hasn’t been, that hasn’t been my demon. But it does not get me going any further. If anything, it just makes me not reach my full potential, which is unacceptable to me. Like, I will not accept anyone or anything that causes me to not reach my fullest potential.”