Ruston Kelly recently shared on Instagram that he suffered a relapse.
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The "Mockingbird" singer has opened up about his struggles with drug abuse before. His fight to overcome his demons was the subject of his 2018 album Dying Star.
But in a post to fans on Instagram today, July 29, Kelly shared that he is three days sober after a freak golf cart accident led to him slipping back into old habits.
Ruston Kelly Was Five Years Sober Before His Relapse
In the post, Kelly is holding a chip from Narcotics Anonymous. In the caption, he shared that five years ago, he believed he "would be on the right 'clean' journey for myself as long as he "wasn't using amphetamines."
"I had never been addicted to any drug other than those pills," he wrote. "I lumped in alcohol and THC etc initially because I thought that's what I was supposed to do."
Kelly added that he believed he was "in control," but "somewhere along the way I became obstinate in my journey, that I wasn't an "addict" in the traditional sense of the word, that I was only addicted to amphetamines."
Then Kelly Suffered an Accident
Kelly explained that he "attempted to live a lifestyle that was satisfactory to my carnal impulses because I 'never had a problem with them.'"
However, that all changed when he "broke his arm in half" after a freak golf cart accident. He was prescribed fentanyl, morphine, ketamine, Dilaudid, and oxycodone to deal with the pain.
He wrote, "I was chewing them in the pharmacy before I walked out the door. I was hiding how many at a time I was taking. I was complaining to the dr it wasn't enough. It awakened something I hadn't felt in a very long time."
It was three days ago when Kelly realized he had a problem.
"I admitted that whether I like it or not I will forever have a substance abuse disease," he said. "ALL drugs/substances including alcohol and THC are off the table for good (working on nicotine)."
Kelly said he intends "to remain this way forever, one day at a time."
You can read his full post below.
