HUGE @recoveryinc shoutout to Mary J. Blige and her sobriety!!!

Mary J. Blige may be a seven-time Grammy winner but she could have lost it all to drugs and alcohol if she hadn’t stopped using.⁠

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Early in her music career she didn’t care about contracts or if she was getting ripped off, Blige said in an interview, so long as she got her fix.⁠
“As long as I had my supply, they could keep robbing me and telling me anything,” she revealed to Star2. “I was pretty much trusting people that weren’t trustworthy.⁠

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So you wind up signing your life away and then later on you have no money and you have nothing because they steal everything from you.”⁠
Her problem became so bad, she says, she would likely have lost her life if she kept using the way she did.⁠

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“I realized I was going to die if I didn’t stop drinking. If I didn’t stop doing drugs, I was going to lose my career completely,” she recalls.⁠
Her then-spouse, Kendu Isaacs, tried to help her.⁠

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“My husband had come into my life at that point. He challenged me. He asked me these questions: ‘Why do you hate yourself? Why do you drink so much? Why? Why?’” she revealed.⁠

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“It drove me crazy to the point where I started to ask myself those questions, and the answers were always: ‘I don’t know.’”⁠
Her wake-up call came when pop star Aaliyah perished in an airplane crash.⁠
“It was a wake-up call and I stopped cold turkey. I told myself I am not going to drink anymore,” she said “That accident changed my whole life completely.”⁠

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Blige has been open about her struggles with substance abuse, revealing in 2013 that her issues are rooted in being sexually abused as a child. This led to one of her lowest moments that should have been one of her best: being drunk and high on cocaine when winning her first Grammy in 1995.⁠

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Nowadays, the simple things in life keep her happy.⁠
“I love food. I love my girlfriends. I love to laugh. I love my sisters and going to dinner with my girlfriends. I love to see my family…” she said. “What else? Shoes. I love a good pair of shoes. And just peace of mind, really being able to go home and have peace of mind.”

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