The 'Dancing With the Stars' pro is celebrating three years of sobriety.
Cheryl Burke has been sober for three years, but at the height of her alcohol addiction she was drinking seven days a week.on Tuesday to discuss alcoholism, sobriety and more and said she once was a"functioning drunk."The 37-year-old, who recently revealed that she had a"From my social anxiety to living here in Los Angeles, going to red carpets, that is not something that I will ever get used to. I’m very blessed to have opportunities, absolutely. And that doesn’t go unnoticed.
"And I’ve realized too now, I have insomnia since I’ve been sober. I used to sleep like a baby when I was drinking obviously, naps 10 hours, wake up, do it again, seven nights a week. I was a ballroom-by-day type girl and then party- or club-goer at night for 10 years in a row," she said. The pro dancer, who started drinking at the age of 21, used alcohol to numb her emotions and said eventually, no amount of alcohol would get her drunk.
"It was survival mode constantly, seven days a week for me. I needed to just to get through this day," she said.
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