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has been open and public about his struggles and rehab, detailing his journey in podcasts, interviews, TV documentaries and his new book “Till the End.”
“My response is always the same:
It was the greatest decision I ever made in my life,” CC said during an interview with Silver Hill Radio this summer. “The hardest thing about going to rehab or getting help is speaking up, seeking help and being
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dependent on someone else to help you figure this out. My time at Silver Hill was the best 30 days I’ve had as an adult.”
At Silver Hill, CC says, he sorted out the reasons why he drank. He identified the triggers that caused him to want to drink and how to avoid those situations. Silver Hill gave him “a bunch of different tools,” to help him navigate life while maintaining sobriety.
He said it was particularly powerful when former patients came back to visit Scavetta House to talk with the current residents at group sessions and relive their journeys to sobriety.
“I’d be in those meetings visualizing myself talking to that group and visualizing what sober life can be like,” he recalls. “That was the best part to me. To have people come back and walk the house and relive that. Just seeing people’s reaction to being back in that house was huge to me. That’s going to be me, I told myself. I’m going to come back and talk to the guys.”
The timing of CC’s rehabilitation
at Silver Hill played a key role in
his success, he says. He recalls witnessing the struggles of two other patients, one younger and one older. The younger one, CC says, appeared to not be ready to quit
Sabathia is often asked
for advice about rehab.
The former Yankee did a
month-long stay at Silver Hill Hospital’s Scavetta House for alcohol rehabilitation in 2015. He
On the final day of the 2015 regular season, CC told his manager, Joe Girardi, about his drinking problem and that he was going to rehab the next day. The team was in Baltimore that weekend and CC drank heavily on Friday and Saturday, reportedly alone in his hotel room, to the point of not remembering much of the weekend. The Yankees had a Wild Card game the next day, but CC knew if he delayed going to rehab, he would likely never go. With a possible playoff run looming, CC left the team and checked himself into Silver Hill Hospital. Using the tools he learned here over those next 30 days, CC is now six years sober and loving life more than ever.