Metal Anarchy

Nita Strauss (Alice Cooper, etc.) is celebrating 10 years of sobriety. She says the milestone did not come easy, but she “couldn’t ask for [her] life to have turned out any better.”

Strauss said the following:

“Made it 🤍

I remember my first few weeks of sobriety with this vague idea of “I’ll see if I can do 10 years.”

At the time, that number was PREPOSTEROUS. Might as well be a million billion years!! I thought I’d just bide my time, wait until things calmed down in my life and then everything could go back to normal.

I had no concept of all the gifts sobriety would bring into my life and how much better the new normal would be!

Sobriety still does not come “easily” to me. I’m by myself a lot on tour and I have easy access to anything I want on the tour bus and dressing rooms… In fact I actually called the front desk in my hotel this week and asked them to please come and remove the massive quantities of alcohol from the room’s minibar, because I knew I’d be here today, and even after all this time I still don’t want to give in to that little voice that says “you’re alone in the room, you hit your goal of 10 years, no one will know if you have a lil celebration.”

It’s something that you work at quietly every day, on some days that it never crosses your mind and some days harder than others.

Grateful for the support of @thejoshv through this whole journey and for my dear friends in recovery who have given me the best advice and reading lists 🤍

Sobriety can be a solitary road but it’s important to know that you don’t have to walk it alone when you don’t want to!!

Celebrating here with an iced coffee walk before rehearsal. Couldn’t ask for my life to have turned out any better 🤍”