Chrissy Teigen Reveals She’s Drinking Again After Years of Sobriety

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Chrissy Teigen revealed she has ended her sobriety after giving up alcohol in 2021.

The model, 39, confirmed that she had decided to start drinking again in a May 15 episode of her Audible podcast, Self-Conscious With Chrissy Teigen, while in conversation with Holly Whitaker, the author of Quit Like a Woman.

“I loved the initial journey of being sober, and it felt very big, it felt almost exciting and fun,” she said of her decision to quit drinking. “[But] I just remember looking at my therapist one day and being like, ‘I have such a wonderful, blessed life, and it kills me that I can’t have an Aperol spritz or something if we’re in Italy.’”

Teigen added that she discussed a plan with both her therapist and husband John Legend to “carefully” and “mindfully” go back to drinking. “He was happy I was honest about it,” Teigen said of Legend’s reaction to her decision, but her choice still weighs on her. “I really don’t like disappointing people,” she said.

Teigen said she feels conflicted about whether she plans to give up drinking again in the future.

“[Sobriety] was so exciting and so cool to me, and now I’m like, ‘I messed up.’ It’s not even exciting to get sober again, and one of the things that really launched me was the excitement of it,” she said. “I still don’t know. I don’t even know if I’m ready to quit again.”

“All I know for sure is that it makes me feel like shit and I hate the taste of it. It ruins my meals.”

When pressed by Whitaker, Teigen admitted that she has a lot of shame around drinking and joked that many famous memes of her, from being asleep at the 2017 Oscars to her crying face at the 2015 Golden Globes, were because she was drunk at the time.

“I think it will help for this [podcast] to come out and for me to admit to this because right now it’s just all on me, and it feels like this big burden,” she said. “I know that people are going to be really kind about it and they will extend to me a lot of grace because this is how it works, there are ebbs and flows.”

“I guess I haven’t really come to terms with [whether] I am ready to have the last drink of my life.”

Teigen first opened up about quitting drinking in December 2020, three months after the loss of her son, Jack, shouting out Whitaker’s best-selling book as the catalyst for her sobriety. “One month ago, on my birthday, I got this book from my doctor and friend,” she shared on her Instagram Story at the time. “I was done with making an ass of myself in front of people (I’m still embarrassed), tired of day drinking and feeling like shit at 6, not being able to sleep. I have been sober ever since.”

Though she briefly returned to drinking, Teigen celebrated one year of sobriety in July 2022.

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