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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

  • John Mayer Details Giving Up Alcohol After Drake's Birthday Party

    John Mayer Details Giving Up Alcohol After Drake's Birthday Party

    “I was in my sixth day of the hangover… I went, ‘OK, John, what percentage of your potential would you like to have?’”

    Singer-songwriter John Mayer hasn’t had a drink in two years.

    “I just went deep one night, and I remember being like, ‘What happens if I keep going?’” he said in a new interview with Complex.

    The decision was simple. “It was Drake’s 30th birthday party, and I made quite a fool of myself,” he recalled. “And then I had a conversation with myself. I remember where I was. I was in my sixth day of the hangover… I went, ‘OK, John, what percentage of your potential would you like to have?’”

    There was no wrong answer, he told himself. But in the end, he wanted it all—100%.

    “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.’”

    The “Your Body Is a Wonderland” singer is hoping to show people that there are alternatives to drinking. “I want people to know that ‘that’s enough for now’ is on the menu, so to speak,” he said on social media October 2017.

    Giving up drinking—a very personal experience, he says—paved the way to new things. “The next year, I did four tours, I was in two bands, I was happy on airplanes.”

    Not drinking “feels like boredom at first,” he explained. But sticking with it will level everything out. “You’re like, ‘Oh, I”m not having these high highs.’ But if you work, you can bring the whole line up.”

    Mayer says because it is different for everyone, it’s hard to explain how he came to quit booze on his own.”It’s the most personal thing to people. If I were to tell other people how they could do it, it just is so particular to your own spirit and your own psychology that it’s almost impossible to develop one way of explaining it to someone else.”

    Mayer also recalled collaborating on a song with late rapper Mac Miller (born Malcolm McCormick). The Pittsburgh native died of a drug overdose on Sept. 7 in his home in Studio City, California.

    “I just wish it wasn’t fatal. I just wish figuring out your life didn’t take your life away from you,” Mayer says. “I don’t have an answer for how to fix that, but once you get old enough to understand how valuable life is, you look at people and go, ‘I just wish you could work this out.’”

    View the original article at thefix.com