Guitarist Nita Strauss has been sober since 2015. She recently got married to longtime boyfriend and drummer Josh Villalta, and WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley actually officiated her wedding.
In a recent interview with Metal Hammer, the longtime guitarist for Alice Cooper’s band opened up about her past addiction issues and how it affected her.
“I wouldn’t say I hit rock bottom – I’m not like Nikki Sixx – but I was a dangerous addict because whether I was doing drugs or drinking, I was very highly functional,” she said. “I was doing all these things that could have got me in trouble, but I never played a bad show, I was never falling-down sloppy.”
“But it was really insidious, because it was bleeding into my personal life. Some of the guys in the band had noticed it, but it took my partner Josh, who is now my husband, saying to me: ‘If you’re gonna be like this, I don’t know how long I’m going to be with you. I can’t watch you destroy your life like this. This was the highest point of my professional career so far, and it just seemed unfair – I couldn’t understand why I was getting picked on, and why I had to be boring and go to sleep early.”
She continued: “My husband still drinks, my friends still drink, Alice has been sober a long time but he doesn’t mind if people drink, so there’s bottles of wine in the dressing room and bourbon on the tour bus. The only thing we do differently on my solo tour is that we don’t put alcohol on the rider and don’t stock it on the bus. People can have a beer on the bus, but I say, ‘Please don’t keep a bunch of beer on the bus.’ But it’s hard. It puts your ethics and morals into perspective – I have every opportunity to drink and no one would know, but sobriety, for me, is what you do when no one’s looking.”
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