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  • John Mayer Talks Sobriety On "Ellen"

    John Mayer Talks Sobriety On "Ellen"

     “I completed my course in drinking. Thankfully, for me – I’m very lucky – I didn’t go all that deep. I just went, ‘You know, I think I’m done,’” Mayer said.

    Grammy-award winning singer/songwriter John Mayer recently marked two years alcohol-free and he opened up about it to Ellen on The Ellen Degeneres Show. 

    “I just finished,” Mayer explained to DeGeneres. “I completed my course in drinking. Thankfully, for me – I’m very lucky – I didn’t go all that deep. I just went, ‘You know, I think I’m done.’ It’s like Forest Gump running and he just stops running at some point. ‘I think I’m out.’ So I punched out.”

    Mayer also added that he stopped drinking after he had “a good, long talk” with himself.

    Mayer told Complex that the turning point was when he attended Drake’s 30th birthday, “and I made a fool of myself…I was in my sixth day of the hangover…I went, ‘Okay John, what percentage of your potential would you like to have. The voice in my head said, ‘OK. Do you know what that means?’ I went, ‘We don’t have to talk anymore. I get it.’”

    Once Mayer stopped drinking, his productivity went through the roof. “The next year, I did four tours, I was in two bands, I was happy on airplanes.” In 2017, Mayer publicly announced on social media, “I want people to know that ‘that’s enough for now’ is on the menu, so to speak.”

    Last year in Rolling Stone, Mayer revealed that he entered the “cannabis life,” and has also been pushing for the legalization of marijuana on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “I put [weed] where drinking used to go, and the quality of life has gone up considerably. Drinking is a f*****g con.”

     Mayer is also launching a foundation that will help vets dealing with PTSD. The Heart and Armor Foundation has been in the works since 2012.

    “We’re going to the public with things like published research papers and having raised enough money to really build some pilot programs,” Mayor said. “We have some really great data and we want it to be working first so that a lot of the questions were answered before we brought things to people by way of awareness.”

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Anne Hathaway Vows To Stop Drinking Until Son Is Older

    Anne Hathaway Vows To Stop Drinking Until Son Is Older

    Hathaway says before she stopped drinking she had been touring rum bars on the island Mauritius, an experience she doesn’t remember.

    Anne Hathaway hasn’t had a drink since October—and she plans to keep it that way for the next 18 years.

    According to USA Today, the actress made the announcement on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday (Jan. 22). Hathaway says she plans to stay sober until her 2-year-old son, Jonathan, is grown.  

    While Hathaway has never been in the spotlight for excessive drinking or partying, she says she still feels that stopping is the right decision when it comes to the effect it could have on the way she parents. 

    “I’m going to stop drinking while my son is in my house just because I don’t totally love the way I do it and he’s getting to an age where he really does need me all the time in the mornings,” Hathaway told Ellen. “I did one school run one day where I dropped him off at school. I wasn’t driving, but I was hungover and that was enough for me. I didn’t love that one.” 

    Hathaway says before she stopped drinking, she had been traveling on the island Mauritius, with her Serenity co-star Matthew McConaughey and his wife, Camila Alves. The friends had been touring rum bars and Hathaway tells Ellen that she doesn’t recall much of it.

    “Wow, and how was that?” Ellen asked, referring to the travels. 

    “I don’t remember,” Hathaway replied. “I have no idea.” 

    Hathaway added that while she enjoys their company, she simply couldn’t keep up with the drinking.

    “They’re both cool, and I just can’t drink as much as them,” she said. “We drank the night away, and then I had to go to a meeting with Steven Knight, our director, the next day, and I was just kinda—have you guys ever had to do a meeting hungover? I was just kinda stumbling in with one eye open and I was trying to convince him about certain things about my character.”

    Hathaway says at the end of the meeting, she told Knight she was hungover. 

    “He just goes, ‘Oh, really? I couldn’t tell,’” she told Ellen. “And then two days later we had another meeting and I showed up and he said ‘Oh, now I can.’” 

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  • Ellen DeGeneres Reveals Depression Struggle

    Ellen DeGeneres Reveals Depression Struggle

    The week of the release of her new Netflix stand-up special, Relatable, Ellen DeGeneres is speaking openly about her struggles with depression.

    The talk show host and comedienne told USA Today that she was depressed and felt alienated after she famously came out of the closet, and she fought back against it through “meditation and being quiet. For a long time, there was a lot of fear that (being gay) was going to influence people’s opinions about me and so I didn’t ever have the confidence I should have had. Because whenever you carry shame around, you just can’t possibly be a confident person.”

    On the Armchair Expert podcast, DeGeneres said, “Because there was so much talk about [coming out] . . . Even Elton John said, ‘Shut up already. We know you’re gay. Be funny.’ I had never met him and I thought, ‘What kind of support is that from a gay person?”

    When her show, Ellen, finally went off the air, DeGeneres spiraled deeper. “I was looked at as a failure in this business. No one would touch me. I had no agent, no possibility of a job, I had nothing.”

    DeGeneres said, “It took a while to shake off that judgment and the attacks I felt . . . I was fully honest with myself and that gave me confidence. I think that helps with depression. Depression eats away at your confidence and you get lost in that, and forget that you’re enough just as you are.”

    When she moved out to the industry town of Los Angeles, DeGeneres felt more isolated and reluctant to reach out to others for help. “If you ever have experienced depression, you isolate yourself and don’t reach out for help. You don’t say, ‘I’m hurting, I need help’ – you kind of crawl further into that dark hole, so that’s where I was for a while.”

    In addition to meditation, DeGeneres told Good Housekeeping she “started seeing a therapist and had to go on anti-depressants for the first time in my life . . . I slowly started to climb out of it. I can’t believe I came back from that point. I can’t believe where my life is now.”

    DeGeneres says her new special is called Relatable because even though she’s a celebrity, “we’re all relatable. I didn’t have money for a long, long time. I’ve been doing this (talk) show for a long time and now I do have money, but I’ve always been the same person. Just because we have different experiences, at the core we’re all the same.”

    View the original article at thefix.com