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  • Ariana Grande Celebrates Brother's Sober Milestone

    Ariana Grande Celebrates Brother's Sober Milestone

    Ariana and Frankie Grande took to social media to celebrate his sober milestone.

    Ariana Grande tweeted out an emotional congratulations to her brother, Frankie Grande, helping him celebrate 20 months without drugs or alcohol. 

    Ariana said in a tweet that she struggled to find the words to acknowledge the milestone for her 36-year-old brother. 

    “man, i love u @FrankieJGrande. happy. twenty. months. been staring at this drafting n deleting bc everything i write makes me cry. jus know i think you’re a superhero and u make me v proud. everyone knows how hard this is and how strong you’ve been. congratulations and thank god.”

    Frankie has previously said that Ariana’s former boyfriend Mac Miller, who died of an overdose last September, helped him get sober. 

    “He was the reason I went to the rehabilitation center where I was detoxed safely from all of the drugs alcohol and medications I was taking, when I couldn’t imagine living without them,” Frankie said. “It was the place where I found the community of support that showed me that living life without drugs was a possibility and I would have never discovered that if it weren’t for Malcolm.”

    This week, Frankie took to Instagram to discuss the ways that sobriety has changed his life. 

    “i have 20 months sober. i am extremely proud,” he wrote in the post. “this hasn’t been easy. when you get sober… life still happens. you have to deal with all the same highs and lows as you did when you were using but now you don’t have the ability to numb yourself. you feel it. you feel everything. good and bad. but there is also beauty in that. over the past 20 months i have felt loss but i have also felt love. i felt joy but i also felt grief. but the bottom line is… i felt. and that is such a gift. 

    Today, Frankie said, he looks forward to the future with excitement, rather than the anxiety he experienced when he was using.

    “today, when i look in the mirror i see a completely different man than i did 20 months ago. i see a man who knows that everything is exactly as it is meant to be. a man liberated from the prison of being stuck in the past or obsessing over the future. a man grateful for his life… exactly as it is. a man excited for the next chapter… and ready to face it… no matter what…. sober.”

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Ariana Grande’s Brother: Mac Miller Helped Me Get Sober

    Ariana Grande’s Brother: Mac Miller Helped Me Get Sober

    “He was the reason I went to the rehabilitation center where I was detoxed safely from all of the drugs alcohol and medications I was taking.”

    Frankie Grande paid tribute to Mac Miller in an Instagram post, stating it was thanks to the late rapper that Grande got sober.

    “I am beyond heartbroken over Malcolm’s death. He was a good friend and was wonderful to my sister,” Grande posed, referring to the relationship his sister, Ariana Grande, and Miller shared. “He was the reason I went to the rehabilitation center where I was detoxed safely from all of the drugs alcohol and medications I was taking, when I couldn’t imagine living without them. It was the place where I found the community of support that showed me that living life without drugs was a possibility and I would have never discovered that if it weren’t for Malcolm.”

    Grande went on to recount all the times Miller showed up to support Grande’s sobriety milestones before calling for sympathy for those who suffer from substance abuse disorders.

    “I am beyond heartbroken over Malcolm’s death. He was a good friend and was wonderful to my sister,” Grande wrote in the caption. “He was the reason I went to the rehabilitation center where I was detoxed safely from all of the drugs alcohol and medications I was taking, when I couldn’t imagine living without them. It was the place where I found the community of support that showed me that living life without drugs was a possibility and I would have never discovered that if it weren’t for Malcolm.”

    Grande recounted all of the times Miller showed up to celebrate his sobriety milestones, treating him with gifts and “words of encouragement.”

    “Addiction is a TERRIBLE disease… many people are suffering from addiction like I am and many many of them are losing,” he  wrote. “Those of us who are struggling with addiction must stay strong. We must continue to work HARD on ourselves every single day and help each other. Our disease is strong but WE ARE STRONGER and I vow to work every moment of my life to have myself sober so that i may be there for others.”

    Grande included several numbers to resources that anyone who may need help with substance abuse.

    “Malcolm my friend, you will be dearly missed,” he added. “And I know you will be looking down on me from heaven, proudAF for every day I live my life clean and sober… 453 days and counting… Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

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  • Frankie Grande Celebrates Sober Milestone

    Frankie Grande Celebrates Sober Milestone

    “I discovered that the path to the light was not in drowning my sorrows, but in facing them head on… in sobriety.”

    Following the one-year anniversary of the horrific Manchester Arena bombing at the Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017, the pop star and the people close to her have opened up about how they have coped in the aftermath of the horrific attack that killed 22 people.

    The pop star’s brother, Frankie Grande, a singer, dancer and YouTube personality, penned a heartfelt letter that he shared with People magazine, in which he described the pain and trauma that the attack caused, not only on the victims themselves, but on him and his family.

    In his letter, he shares that he is now one-year sober, a decision he made after falling into a “very dark place” that he tried masking with drugs and alcohol.

    “Today I am one year sober… and the gratitude that I feel in the face of this milestone is measureless. After the tragic events of Manchester, with the senseless loss of life and fear that came from knowing my family was unsafe and that I was completely powerless to protect them, I went to a very dark place with no tools to handle the feelings that came along with the devastation of the attack. I tried to pull myself out of the darkness by drinking and abusing prescribed drugs as I had done in the past for so many other reasons… but that only made the hole that I was trying to crawl out of even deeper.”

    The 35-year-old Broadway performer went on to describe how his previous party-centric life had “turned into a nightmare where I never felt more alone.” This went on until Frankie finally reached a point where “living was just too painful” and decided to seek help.

    Since then, life has been different for Frankie. “I am here today because with that help I discovered that the path to the light was not in drowning my sorrows, but in facing them head on… in sobriety,” he wrote.

    His letter went on to inspire and encourage anyone to have hope, despite whatever personal hell they might be going through. “In fact, you can become STRONGER than you ever thought possible,” Frankie wrote. The performer said he’s never been happier with his decision to be sober.

    “This decision to be sober is a lifetime decision. I live without needing a drink or a drug to change the way I feel or perceive my circumstances and outcomes,” he wrote. “I have repaired relationships I previously thought unsalvageable and I am living my best TRUEST life.”

    At the end of his letter, Frankie lists a number of resources that may help somebody who is struggling: Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, SAMHSA, and the Suicide Prevention Hotline.

    In a recent post on Twitter, Frankie thanked his sister Ariana Grande for giving him strength and supporting his recovery.

    Last month, the 24-year-old pop singer shared how she’s been coping with the trauma of the Manchester bombing.

    “Music is supposed to be the safest thing in the world. I think that’s why it’s still so heavy on my heart every single day,” she said at the time. “I wish there was more that I could fix. You think with time it’ll become easier to talk about. Or you’ll make peace with it. But every day I wait for that peace to come and it’s still very painful.”

    View the original article at thefix.com