Comic Jeff Dye spent “20 years” as a “high-functioning alcoholic” and is now running on his sobriety adventure.
“I’m an alcoholic,” Dye, 40, printed at the Thursday, December 21, episode of the “Smoochietown with Marco DelVecchio” podcast. “I have 36 days sober now.”
Dye admitted to consuming “every night since 2005,” explaining that he would get started his evenings at a bar prior to transferring to comedy membership and in all probability finishing up at a 2d bar later on.
Right through Thursday’s podcast episode, Dye additionally detailed his DUI from previous this 12 months.
“I woke up late because I slept through my alarm. I jumped in the cold shower, I put a hat on and just got in my Tesla,” Dye recalled, noting that he was once going to satisfy an ex-girlfriend. “Teslas are very fast and so I just lost control of my car and crashed it. This is 9 hours after I went to sleep. It wasn’t like I was leaving a bar, I wasn’t hammered.”
Whilst he “didn’t feel drunk” on the time of the coincidence, Dye was once nonetheless serious about “some alcohol” being in his machine. So, he “ran from the car.”
“Then, they arrested me at a coffee shop in front of my ex, in front of everyone at the coffee shop too,” Dye recalled. “It was wildly humiliating.”
Us Weekly showed in October that Dye were arrested for fleeing the scene of a site visitors collision and riding below the affect. The Burbank PD printed that he had collided with a tree and fled the coincidence on foot.
Dye’s aforementioned ex was once Kristin Cavallari, who recounted the similar incident on her “Let’s Be Honest” podcast in October, weeks after the coincidence, with out the use of his identify. (Cavallari and Dye cut up in March 2021 after 5 months in combination.)
“I go, ‘Can you guys tell me what is going on?’” Cavallari recalled all the way through the October 24 episode, revealing that she spoke to the arresting officials. “One of the police officers goes, ‘There was a report of a hit-and-run down the street and he matches the description of the guy.’”
Dye wasn’t too glad that Cavallari spoke publicly about his coincidence and next DUI.
“Kristin telling the story on her podcast for clicks, which f—k her … I it’s not her story to tell,” Dye mentioned all the way through Thursday’s “Smoochietown” episode, calling Cavallari “a terrible person” for posting footage of his totaled automobile on her Instagram Tale.
“It was very terrible, and it hurt my feelings a lot,” Dye added. “I don’t think people realize how horrific that made me feel. Like, I don’t know if anyone will ever know. I don’t know how to explain it. Imagine the worst thing that ever happened to you and strangers are looking at you like at a coffee shop.”
Returning to the dialog about his sobriety, Dye printed that he’s “never felt better.” He added, “I wish I’d have done it sooner.”