Lucy Hale
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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The School of Greatness · Lucy Hale: Her Darkest Years Came at the Peak of Fame · 30 Apr 2025
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I, you know, that really is my biggest lesson in being sober is being able to speak up for myself and set boundaries for myself and honor my truth because that is why I was drinking. I was drinking not because I like to take tequila shots and like run loose in the streets of LA. No, I was drinking because that in some weird way allowed me to be
to unleash these like parts of myself that I really didn't want to, I felt like I couldn't behave that way in my normal life. And so I do have a lot of darkness in me and a lot of depth and a lot of, I don't know, whatever you want to call it. And, and it scared me, I think a lot of my life, but now I kind of run towards that because I think people who
struggle in this way or struggle with anything it's just because we're afraid of our own power and and I'm not anymore and I if you can't tell I love talking about this because I This was bottled up for a really long time because I was like, well, I can't talk about it because no one's going to hire me. Like I can't talk about it. No one's going to want to date me. I can't talk about it.
People are going to be scared of me. But when I first spoke about this a couple of years ago on another podcast, the amount of people that I have connected with and the amount of people who are like, that helped me get sober or that helped me realize like how I'm sabotaging my life. And that's why we talk about these things. That's why you do what you do.
It's because it's so important to be that ripple effect in someone else's life.
I mean, the funny thing about my old friend alcohol is that it starts out as a really good friend, right? Like, it's sneaky and, but I wanna talk to you because you don't drink.
Okay, I need to, I'm gonna circle back around to this because.
No.
Not for me.
Okay. But not for me. So this, so there are certain people who like, it blew my mind that people could just have a glass of wine because if Lucy over here had a glass of wine, like I'd be buying the whole place. Yeah. Your mom shots like two hours later.
Sure.
I am an extremist, which is a blessing and a curse, but you can't say I ever didn't like go 100% with drinking because I went. And, and the other thing is, I never knew if it was going to be fun or if it was going to be, you know, blacked out crying on the phone to, you know, someone I'm going to regret talking to. Um, but I used alcohol. Yeah. So it was a slow creep up.
It wasn't, it was always very clear looking back in hindsight that I was a binge drinker from the beginning. Um, But I would say around like early 20s because I went to rehab at 23. Wow. Yep. And I, that didn't work. It did for a little bit, but.
I mean, I do believe in the divine timing of my life. So at those moments, I did have what I needed. But I think what I really was craving was, I mean, honestly, like simply put, my connection with a higher power, my spiritual, I was spiritually broken is what I was.
Absolutely.
And that brought on more shame because even as a little kid, I was like highly connected to God. Like I remember speaking out loud and speaking to the universe and literally daydreaming about being in L.A. And I manifested that for my life. And at some point along the way, I just It's not like that left me. I cut myself off from that. That connection's always there.
As people, we just forget, suppress, cut it off. But I think what I really needed was Well, I needed to get scared shitless is what I needed. And that's what happened when I got sober. I was scared. I was very scared. And not everyone needs that, but I needed, it was like someone was shaking me to wake up. And so I had to be so scared because I, it's not like I wanted to die. I wanted to live.
And I needed, I needed my connection with something bigger than me.
Oh, I just, I was like, do I make it out of this? Or is this going to be my life?
Three years ago. I'm like, is this going to be my life? Because I was just in this pattern for years and I was so physically, mentally, emotionally tired. I couldn't even, I literally couldn't even look people in the eye because I was so ashamed of who I was. Wow. Because there was just a moment in my life, all I did was wear sunglasses because I was like people see right through me.
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