Dax Shepard is opening up about his sobriety.
In the Sept. 25 episode of his podcast Armchair Expert, the 45-year-old star, who had actually been sober for 16 years, exposed he just recently fell back and had actually been taking opioids.
While he detailed numerous of the bumps in the roadway he experienced over the last 8 years, he likewise discussed how his life altered following his newest round of injuries, which began 6 months back.
“For the last eight weeks maybe, I don’t really know…I’m on them all day,” Shepard, who had actually been taking Vicodin for the discomfort, exposed. “And I’m enabled to be on them at some dose due to the fact that I have a prescription and after that I’m likewise enhancing that. And then all the prescriptions go out and I’m now simply taking 30 mil Oxys that I’ve purchased whenever I choose I can do [it].”
Because Shepard, wed to Kristen Bell, was still able to meet his everyday obligations, he didn’t believe there was a problem. But after his podcast co-host Monica Padman challenged him, he began lying to her.Â
“And I hate it,” he stated. “And I’m lying to other people. And I know I have to quit. But my tolerance is going up so quickly that I’m now in a situation where I’m taking, you know, eight 30s a day, and I know that’s an amount that’s going to result in a pretty bad withdrawal. And I start getting really scared, and I’m starting to feel really lonely. And I just have this enormous secret.”Â
