John Mayer has revealed that he quit drinking in 2016 after celebrating Drake’s 30th birthday.
“I just went deep one night, and I remember being like, ‘What happens if I keep going? I always stop here. What if I keep going?’ It was really kind of, oddly, a playful kind of thing,” the musician recalled. “I went, ‘Oh, I’m done.’”
In an interview with Complex, Mayer said it was Drake’s birthday bash that sparked his sobriety.
“I made quite a fool of myself,” he said. “And then I had a conversation with myself. I remember where I was. I was in my sixth day of the hangover. That’s how big the hangover was.
“I looked out the window and I went, ‘OK, John, what percentage of your potential would you like to have? Because if you say you’d like 60, and you’d like to spend the other 40 having fun, that’s fine. But what percentage of what is available to you would you like to make happen? There’s no wrong answer. What is it?’ I went, ‘100.’”
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Mayer opened up about the challenges of staying sober. “Every Friday and Saturday, on social media, there is enabling going on for drinking,” he said. “What if I woke up every morning on Saturday and Sunday and put my feet on the ground and I just went ‘not hungover’ and put it on social media every day?
“That would be an influence on people because I think you forget that’s an option.”