In an interview on the Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard podcast, Macklemore opened up about relapsing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Macklemore and Shepard both have gone public about the struggles they’ve encountered in sobriety. Macklemore (real name Benjamin Haggerty) credited Shepard with helping him get through his relapse. Back in September, Shepherd revealed that he had relapsed after 16 years of sobriety.
Macklemore said Shepard’s ability to be “vulnerable and honest” “really resonated” with him.
"It was within two months of my COVID relapse, and the disease of addiction is crazy," Macklemore said. "It made me feel, as someone that had relapsed again, like a month or two before, that I'm not alone."
Macklemore has been open about his sobriety ever since he first went to rehab in 2008. "I've spent most of the last 11 years in recovery, and it's made me who I am," he said.
"I've compromised my life and other people around me, I've done things that I'm not proud of, but I do have that foundational level of 10 years of recovery, and I'm f****** proud of that."
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