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Carl Radke inspires the return to sobriety
Teigen revealed via Instagram in January 2026 thereafter Summer House star Carl Radke talked about his five years of sobriety with her”self aware”, took a spin on his own journey.
“After being sober for a little over a year, I started drinking again. I promised myself it would be in a ‘conscious’ way. I wanted to be able to have a glass of wine on a date night with my husband. So I could toast birthdays,” Teigen recalled. through social networks of how he reintroduced alcohol into his life in 2025. “How lucky I am to have the life I have, I want to enjoy it! And I think that was my first problem. tying drinking as a reward or as a kind of prize in life. It soon became the kind of drink I’m all too familiar with. Quiet times at home were for wine. The time went from 6pm to 4pm, until at 17:00 to 18:00. lunch, why not, when they got to 11:00 in the morning, I said, “Oh shit, here we go again.”
Teigen noted that because she’s a “whole mom,” her drinking wasn’t the “slurring your words and missing a step on the stairs” experience some people experience.
“He was calm and consistent. And my God, I felt like shit,” he confessed. “I missed being able to pick up my keys to go buy last-minute groceries. But I still wasn’t messy enough to stop.”
Teigen said that “within the week” of talking to Radke, who got sober in 2021, “she stopped drinking again.”
“I think the biggest difference between now and the first time is that there’s no hype around it. The first time I set foot, it was EXCITING,” he recalled. “The boost was fun and kept me on track. The second time… I don’t know. I don’t know if everyone around you loses faith or you lose faith, or a mix of both. Or maybe nobody wants to get too excited.”
Despite her past ups and downs, Teigen was proud to say, “I’m 52 days sober again, and I don’t want to go back. Turns out, without it, I can still be funny. I’m still stupid. I’m still really nervous. I’m anxious as a motherfucker. And I can get through it all without it.”