WATCH: Billy Flynn on Getting Sober: "I Had to or I Was Going to Die"
Days of Our Lives' Billy Flynn (Chad) got candid with General Hospital's Maurice Benard (Sonny) in a recent episode of Benard's YouTube series State of Mind. Flynn, who dubbed himself a "work in progress," discussed how his struggles with addiction have shaped the man he's become.
Flynn shared:
So I’m an alcoholic and an addict. I’m been in recovery for three years now, approaching three years. But through that journey of self-discovery, luckily I've found a way to—not found a way; I had to or I was going to die—get rid of my ego, get rid of my fear, find a more spiritual way of living.
He told Benard:
I’m not a better person because I stopped drinking. I’m a better person because of the changes I had to make to stay sober, you know what I’m saying? So back to how I worried abut what everybody thought. It was just this thing, probably from the age of 10 or 12, and I say that, because until I was 33 and I got sober, that was probably the age I was emotionally and spiritually, was probably that kid still, which is the pain that you saw, that you said you saw, on the show.
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The Salem fan fave added that he always had a "pretty unhealthy relationship" with alcohol from his first drink, stating:
It could’ve been sex, love, alcohol, gambling, anything to make me not sit with who I really am and the feelings that I really have and my inability to understand any of them, because I was never taught to.
Watch the complete interview below.
