Ashley McBryde is celebrating an important sobriety milestone on social media. The Grand Ole Opry member reveals she has been sober for 1000 days. McBryde shared a heartfelt post along with the announcement, explaining why she will likely never have a drink again.
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"1,000 days, 1,000 moons," McBryde writes. " 1,000 hangovers skipped. 1,000 drunk 'I'm sorrys' I didn't have to say. 1,000 times in a row I made the choice to not pick it up or not miss it when the smell crossed my nose. 1,000 times I have shown that the power of the love of a song and the love of the road are stronger than the pull to ever go back to who I was. 1,000 'I love yous' I say to my reflection. I see the woman I am now and the woman I am on my way to being and I have love and compassion for the woman I was and I care for her daily.
"Wherever you are in your journey, day 1, day 0.... Day 400 or day zero again for the 10th time.
she continues. "It is worth it. Every day is a milestone. Every version of you was necessary to be who you are now. So love them."
Ashley McBryde's Decision To Stop Drinking
In 2023, McBryde revealed that she had quit drinking one year prior, but wanted to keep the decision private for a while.
"I decided that I wasn't gonna talk about it at all until at least a year," McBryde tells People. "Because what I didn't need was people on social media being like, 'Ashley McBryde swears off alcohol!' All people are gonna do is just wait for you to screw up, and that's really annoying. I did it for me. I didn't do it for social media."
Fortunately, once McBryde embraced sobriety, she knew there was no turning back for her.
"It's the best I've felt, the best I've looked," McBryde boasts. "And the difference in my voice ... If you had told me even 10 years ago, you think you love your voice? You should hear it without drinking, because along with drinking comes smoking for me."
McBryde will likely never drink again, but she doesn't expect others to follow suit.
"I'm not mad at anybody that drinks," she adds. "I still love being in bars. I still love all of it. And I lived that life so well that I won. I've done enough of it to write about it for the next hundred years."
