In
October
2018,
the
American
Pie
star
announced
he
was
one
year
sober
in
a
celebratory
and
encouraging Instagram
post.
“I
first
tried
to
get
sober
over
5
years
ago,
when
the
weight
of
my
obsession
with
booze
and
drugs
became
too
heavy
for
me
to
handle,”
he
wrote
at
the
time.
“Turns
out
this
s–t
is
hard.”
He
continued,
“After
some
fits
and
starts,
I’ve
managed
to
put
together
one
year
of
sobriety.
I’m
as
proud
of
it
as
anything
in
my
life.
If
you’re
struggling,
know
there’s
help.
Don’t
be
ashamed.
We
can
do
this.”
Years
later,
he
reflected
on
his
journey
with
addiction
and
the
lengths
he
went
to
hide
the
his
struggle.
“I’m
going
to
therapy
and
‘working
on
things’
but
meanwhile
I’m
leaving
therapy,
having
just
had
a
good
session,
and
I’m
going
to
the
liquor
store
and
buying
a
fifth
of
vodka,
drinking
it
and
then
driving
home,”
he
said
on
a
March
2024
episode
of
his
wife Jenny
Mollen‘s
All
the
Fails
podcast.
“I
knew
how
to
get
wasted
enough
to
where
I
took
myself
out
of
the
life
equation,
took
myself
out
of
the
present,
didn’t
have
to
connect
in
a
way
that
made
me
feel
things.”
He
added,
“I
had
it
figured
out
to
a
T.
To
not
get
too
drunk
where
I
couldn’t
have
a
conversation
with
you.
I
was
replacing
those
bottles
in
the
bar
all
the
time.”
Celebrity Fails
