The Bachelorette's Zac Clark Talks Addiction Struggles & What He Did Just to Get Painkillers

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The Bachelorette‘s Zac Clark is speaking out about his struggles with addiction. The 36-year-old addiction specialist got candid on an episode of the Heart of the Matter with Elizabeth Vargas podcast and disclosed that at the height of his addiction he convinced his doctor to remove his gallbladder in order to get more pain pills.

He told host Elizabeth Vargas, “I’ll never forget — I went to an Eagles game on a Sunday and overdid it, which basically means I did all my drugs.

So I woke up Monday morning with nothing left and I was sick.” “I had this crazy thought because I was feeling sick that I was going to go to the hospital and talk a doctor into giving me some medication,” Zac said. “I didn’t know what my plan was‚ and then I think