Ruston Kelly has shared a promising update after recently suffering a relapse.
Taking to his Instagram handle on Wednesday, the 37-year-old country singer announced that he is now three days sober.
“I told myself back in 2021 that as long as I wasn’t using amphetamines that I would be on the right ‘clean’ journey for myself,” Ruston penned about his relapse.
The Waiting To Love You hitmaker further wrote, “I had never been addicted to any drug other than those pills. I lumped in alcohol and THC etc initially because I thought that’s what I was supposed to do.”
“Somewhere along the way I became obstinate in my journey, that I wasn’t an ‘addict’ in the traditional sense of the word, that I was only addicted to amphetamines. ‘I’ve never had a problem with alcohol, I’ve never had a problem with XYZ’ ‘See I can be like everyone else, I can show self control, I am in control,’” Ruston continued.
“I even got to the point of recent spiritual surrender and still attempted to live a lifestyle that was satisfactory to my carnal impulses because I ‘never had a problem with them,’” he added.
The Mockingbird crooner revealed that he experienced a crisis in his sobriety after a freak golf cart accident in early June.
Ruston was driving a golf cart in a residential area when it struck a thick tree root protruding from the ground, sending his cart flipping into the air.
“I was given fentanyl morphine ketamine dilaudid and oxycodone for 3 days leaving with a month long Rx of Percocet. I needed it for the level 15 pain but very quickly they started running out sooner and sooner,” the singer acknowledged. “I was chewing them in the pharmacy before I walked out the door. I was hiding how many at a time I was taking. I was complaining to the dr it wasn’t enough. It awakened something I hadn’t felt in a very long time.”
“I decided to end any chance of ruining anything good. For my soul my wife my family my art and career and my people,” he wrote. “I admitted that whether I like it or not I will forever have a substance abuse disease. ALL drugs/substances including alcohol and THC are off the table for good (working on nicotine) That if there is something that will scratch an itch I didn’t think I had, I will use it beyond excess and into addiction,” he continued.
“I am 3 days completely clean and sober again, and intend to remain this way forever, one day at a time,” added Ruston.
