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FROM THE DESK OF THE FOUNDER OF TSC
Happy Wednesday, friends! 🎸
I need you to understand the energy of this week’s mid-week lineup. Michael Des Barres. THE Michael Des Barres. Rock legend, actor, absolute force of nature, talking about recovery with the kind of radical honesty that only someone who has truly lived can bring. If you think sobriety makes people boring, this man would like a word and probably a guitar solo.
Then there’s AJ McLean on Soberness with Cat Greenleaf, and trust me - this isn’t the sanitized celebrity recovery story you’re used to. This is the brutal, unfiltered version. The relapses that “didn’t count.” The lies. The moment his daughter became his mirror and he ran out of chances. If you’ve ever wondered what addiction actually looks like when the cameras turn off, he’ll tell you. 🎙️
And Cara Delevingne is our Sober Celebrity Spotlight this week, because sobriety looks really good on her and we’re not done talking about it.
This is the kind of Wednesday that makes you proud to be part of this community.
Cheers to the voices that show up and speak loud,
—Alysse Bryson, *AB That’s ME 💋/ Founder / Seattle, WA 🌃05.01.2006
SOBER SIT DOWN
Michael Des Barres on Rock, Recovery & Radical Sobriety
Few 78-year-olds in rock and roll have as much going on as Michael Des Barres. But before running down the current résumé – and we’ll get there – it helps to understand where he comes from. And we’re not even talking about the six-century-old French title he carries as the 26th Marquis Des Barres. That’s besides the point. What matters more is that – raconteur streak a forest wide – Des Barres has done the bulk of his life’s work sober, beginning at a time when that was the least fashionable thing a rock musician could be.
RECOVERY PODCASTLAND
Soberness with Cat Greenleaf
Soberness—the podcast—is where celebrity raconteurs spill what broke them, what saved them, and what still f**ks with them today.
Soberness—the concept—is freedom from f**kery:
The f**kery of addiction.
The self-inflicted f**kery.
And the f**kery with no explanation.
From Talk Stoop creator and host Cat Greenleaf, Soberness is recorded at the Algonquin Hotel’s iconic Round Table in Midtown Manhattan.
SOBER CELEBRITY OF THE WEEK
Sober Celebrity Spotlight: Cara Delevingne
Cara Delevingne built a career on cool-girl chaos. Runways. Red carpets. Indie films. A reputation for being fearless, unpredictable, untouchable. Then, in 2022, photos of her looking visibly distressed outside an airport went viral. The internet speculated. The headlines multiplied. Concern grew. What happened next matters more than the photos ever did.
In a 2023 Vogue interview, Delevingne shared that she entered rehab and committed to sobriety after recognizing she needed help. She described hitting a point where partying wasn’t glamorous anymore — it was unsustainable.
That’s not a scandal.
That’s self-awareness.
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See you next time!
