Two weeks ago, Dax Shepard shared some difficult news with his fans: After 16 years of sobriety, he relapsed and is now seeking help for an opioid addiction.
On a recent episode of his Armchair Expert podcast, the actor said that he'd been keeping an "enormous secret" from the world, and described his recent abuse of pain pills.
"For the last eight weeks, maybe, I don't really know, I'm on them all day. I'm allowed to be on them at some dosage because I have a prescription," he explained. "And then I'm also augmenting that. And then all the prescriptions run out, and I'm now just taking 30 mil Oxys that I've bought."
He said, "I'm lying to other people, and I know I have to quit. But my tolerance is going up so quickly that I'm now in a situation where I'm taking, you know, eight 30s a day."
Dax concluded the episode by revealing that he recently attended a support group for his addiction, which he described as "the most incredible 90 minutes."
Well, yesterday, Dax and Kristen Bell made their first joint appearance together since he announced the news, when they gave an interview to psychologist and parenting expert Wendy Mogel as part of Advertising Week 2020.
In their conversation, Dax revealed a practice that he's learned from attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and explained why he decided to get his daughters to start doing it as well.
As Dax explains it, part of AA's 12-step program is identifying things you're grateful for in your life, every single day, to remind yourself of all the positive things around you.
"Dax has suggested a couple times, 'Let's just name three things we're grateful for,'" Kristen said. "I am shocked at how into that our girls have gotten."
