Cheyenne Jackson opens up about getting sober: “It got out of hand. My life became unmanageable”

In the January issue of Attitude Magazine, singer-actor Cheyenne Jackson talks his one-time journey towards the darker side of the entertainment industry has been swapped for a very different role: fatherhood.

Cheyenne, 43, celebrated five years of sobriety this year. He reveals how the intoxicating showbiz party scene began to take its toll on his life:

“You were at a party and there would just be a pile of coke there. It got out of hand. My life became unmanageable. There was no ‘rock bottom.’ I didn’t have a ‘thing’ where I lost my job. I was never drunk at work. It was simply getting too much. I couldn’t even go out to dinner, or have a moment with friends, where I wasn’t thinking about drinking, and the drinking always led to ‘Let’s get some coke.’ It was an unhealthy pattern and I’d seen too many friends fall deeper and deeper, losing everything. I wasn’t going to let myself do that. I didn’t go to rehab, I just started going to meetings and got my shit together.”