Tim McGraw Says Faith Hill Helps Him Stay Sober: Couldn’t ‘Stand Up Straight Without Leaning on Her’

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Tim McGraw says his sobriety journey wouldn’t have been possible without Faith Hill.“I don’t think I could stand up straight without leaning on her in everything that I do,” McGraw, 56, told Yahoo Music during an interview on Tuesday, August 8.McGraw admitted he faced challenges after coming to terms with his alcoholism.“It is not a linear path.

There’s setbacks and there’s times you move forward and do great, and there’s times you set back,” he continued. “And that’ll probably be a process throughout the rest of my life and something that I have to be diligent about and really continue to work at.

And I think [my song ‘Hey Whiskey’] is helpful in that regard. It was very cathartic to me, in a lot of ways.”McGraw, who exchanged vows with Hill, 55, in 1996, has previously opened up about hitting rock bottom with his drinking before turning to his wife for help.“I remember a moment when I was getting out of bed and going to the liquor cabinet and taking a big shot at 8:00 in the morning and thinking, ‘I have to wake the kids up,’” McGraw, who shares daughters Gracie, 26, Maggie, 24, and Audrey, 21, with Hill, told Esquire in 2021. “I went straight to my wife and said, ‘This is where I’m at.’ I was scared.

She just grabbed me and hugged me and changed my life.”McGraw also recalled how his outlook on love changed because of Hill, adding at the time, “My wife always says, ‘You’re not scared of anything.’ I say, ‘Ehhh, one thing.