Actor Dean McDermott has marked a major milestone in his sobriety journey amid his divorce from actress Tori Spelling. Mr. McDermott took to Instagram on Monday to celebrate one year of sober living after battling drug and alcohol abuse for nearly three decades.
“Thank you to my Sponsor, my Sponsee Brothers and everyone in the fellowship for celebrating my 1 year birthday,” Mr. McDermott said. The “Due South” star addressed his sobriety in a previous Instagram post, shared a week ago, which features an image that reads: “Addiction isn’t about alcohol and drugs.
It’s the absence of self. This absence is described as a hole in your soul. You can’t love others when you’re empty inside.
Recovery peels back the painful layers and heals that hole through connection, honesty and hard work. To love one self is the beginning of a lifetime recovery.” “Alcohol made me feel good enough.
I started feeling good enough until it got to a point where it didn’t—it ended up in isolation,” Mr. McDermott said. “It ended up with me drinking a fifth of tequila every night, seven days a week, and a handful of [narcotics] by myself with a beautiful family in the other room,” he said.
“That’s what it led to and that’s what led to the brokenness and to what happened between me and Tori.” After spending 40 days in rehab in the summer of 2023, Mr. McDermott moved into the sober living home, crediting Ms.
Spelling for pushing him to seek treatment. “She helped fin.
