Nick Carter was on the Ellen Degeneres Show today. What he talked about took a lot of bravery and I am personally so proud of him. It was a serious interview from Ellen Degeneres today. Nick talked about his addiction with alcohol and how if he didn’t stop drinking it would literally kill him. He seemed like it was a struggle sometimes talking about it, breathing deeply and sighing throughout the whole interview.

Ellen showed pictures of him now and then, and he was just looking scary at his darkest time. But it’s great that he can go on a show and talk about it. It has to be a great form of therapy. Here are highlights from the interview…

Nick on his drinking: I would either go out at night or party [while on tour with the Backstreet Boys]. I didn�t do a lot of morning drinking or anything of that sort. It would sort of be an occasional thing, but a lot of occasions that I would kind of make excuses to just go out to drink and party. It would be excessive.

Nick on the drugs: Drugs kind of came later in life. Alcohol kind of kicked it off and then, once the alcohol kind of wasn�t doing it for me, I would lean on other things.

Nick on the consequences of his actions: I got the DUI and I realized that it was wrong. I decided to go and sort of punish myself. I went to the classes, did the community service and did everything that I was required to do. Then I would end up in a situation where I was like, �Ok well I�ll stop for six months and then after that, I would feel like it�s OK to get back into it.� And sort of fool myself in a way.

Nick on being a better person: My goal in life is to be the best person that I can be and try as hard as I can. I make mistakes, but�I realize that I�m human and�I don�t punish myself for those mistakes. [I] continuously try to be that better person.

Nick says he’s replaced the drinking with other things like working out, sports and video games. But isn’t that what anything is about, replacing one addiction for another? (I’m just glad he looks smoking hot again!)

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