Grammy-winning country music singer Ashley McBryde is opening up about her road to sobriety. Recently, she talked about her journey and the emotional as well as physical turmoil that she was facing behind the scenes while still maintaining a successful music career. She got emotional talking about the intervention that drove her to rehab for alcoholism in 2022.
Ashley McBryde recalls a horrific moment that opened her eyes
Ashley McBryde appeared on the latest episode of the ‘Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast’ on Thursday. Recalling an incident where she woke up at another artist’s house, whom she did not name, the singer said, “I don’t know where I am, and I don’t know where water is, so I’ll just go find water,” said McBryde, who’s now 42. “And when I went to find water, I found a living room, and in that living room was my team. I looked at them, and that artist was also on the couch, and I said, ‘Okay, I don’t know where my boots are, but I need my boots. And they said, ‘We need you to stop.'” I said, ‘I need me to stop too,'” she said. “And that was when I found out that [the artist] took me to her house that night after we’d been out to make sure I didn’t die.”She said knowing that her life was in danger kept her from leaving the rehab center she checked into. “I was gonna die,” McBryde said. She expressed regret for the actions that led her to the confrontation with her team.
Ashley McBryde looks back on her past
Looking back now, the ‘Light On In The Kitchen’ singer admits her mental health was quickly going to a dark place, to the point where she considered that it would be easier to end her life than to try and quit drinking.“The more times I would allow myself to be that drunk, the scarier, the darker it got faster. And it wasn’t six drinks in then. It was three drinks in, and pretty soon that became one, and that’s a scary place to be. It’s a scary spot.”She saw a chance to turn things around and become a better version of herself that would no longer hurt her or the people around her. So, she stayed in rehab.Nearly four years later, McBryde continues to embrace the life she fought so hard to reclaim.
