Zach Bryan admits he drank ‘15 beers a day’ as part of ‘perfect routine’ before quitting alcohol
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Zach Bryan is getting candid about his relationship with alcohol, revealing that he once drank as many as 15 beers a day and was intoxicated when he wrote nearly every hit song of his career.
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The country star, 30, opened up about his sobriety during a conversation with Matthew McConaughey that was released alongside his latest EP, “Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs.”
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Bryan detailed how his drinking eventually led to severe panic attacks that left him fearing he was going to die.
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“When I got in the throes of drinking f—ing 15 beers in a day and I kept going with that cycle, I started getting these really, really severe panic attacks where my whole body went numb, and I thought I was going to have a stroke and die,” he told McConaughey.
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“I’d curl up for days at a time, and I went to a doctor.
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And, like I said, I still didn’t believe it.
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I told the doctor, ‘Man, I’m just hungover.
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I’m fine.
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You have a really severe thing going on here.’
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“[My doctor] said, ‘I think you have a pretty bad panic disorder.
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And if you quit drinking, that might help you a little bit.’
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So I tried it, and I was like, ‘Oh, yeah.’”
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Before giving up alcohol, Bryan said he relied on drinking to manage his stage fright.
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“So I used to get on stage.
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Here’s my routine.
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I used to think this was the perfect routine.
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No show could ever go bad if I did this: work out, shower, play my guitar, listen to Bon Iver, drink four beers,” he recalled.
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“It eased my pain.
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All the stage fright I had was gone after I drank three or four beers, and I’m like, ‘I can do it.’
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Then I would drink after the show, too.”
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Bryan said he would wake up the next day facing another performance and repeat the same cycle.
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“I’d wake up the next day with another show, and I’d think, ‘Well, to get rid of this panic in me, to get rid of this stage fright, there’s one choice.
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Let’s do what we’ve always done
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,’” he said.
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“I’d drink two or three more beers.
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And I thought I was never going to get out of that.
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I thought that cycle was forever.”
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The singer-songwriter said his managers had questioned whether he had tried performing without alcohol, but he viewed drinking as part of his routine.
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“They would always be like, ‘Hey, have you tried not drinking before a show?’
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It’s my routine.
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It’s my lucky socks,” Bryan said.
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“For a long time, I danced with that.
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Years, I danced with that.
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And it worked, you know.
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I was playing a good show.
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I was paying my bills.
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I was doing everything.
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I employed 100 or 200 people.
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Bryan said performing sober is more intimidating at first, but ultimately more rewarding.
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…and 44 more, not listed.
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