Tim McGraw has been opening up in recent years about his journey to sobriety. The country star has been sober since 2008, but he admits it took a lot to get him there. Among the most driving forces in his recovery has been wife Faith Hill.
In a 2021 essay for Esquire, Tim gave some more insight into how Faith aided in his sobriety. The collection of comments he's made about it in recent years give some insight into one of country's favorite couples and a love that's lasted decades.
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Tim McGraw recently penned an essay for Esquire sharing the little moments he's lived and lessons he's learned throughout his life. Appearing in there was wife Faith Hill and her reaction to one of his most candid admissions in his journey to sobriety.
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"I remember a moment when I was getting out of bed and going to the liquor cabinet and taking a big shot at 8:00 in the morning and thinking, 'I have to wake the kids up,'" Tim wrote.
"I went straight to my wife and said, 'This is where I'm at.'"
"I was scared," Tim leveled.
"She just grabbed me and hugged me and changed my life."
Tim opened up about getting sober in depth in a People interview in 2018. "People were worried about me … It wasn't something that I didn't know as well," he shared.
"But ultimately, it is really about how I want to be around for my kids. I want to be around to see how they grow up. I want to see what their lives become. I want to see what their kids look like."
"Faith saved my life in a lot of ways — from myself more than anything," Tim shared.
"I can go down a dark road sometimes, when you're not feeling good about yourself, and she pulls me out. My wife makes me a better man."
Tim also spoke about another significant relationship in his life in the Esquire interview. He spoke about finding out his dad was professional baseball played Tug McGraw when he was 11 years old.
"People ask me, 'How could you have a relationship with your father? You were growing up in nothing. He was a millionaire baseball player. He knew you were there, and he didn't do anything,'" he wrote.
"But when I found out Tug McGraw was my dad, it gave me something in my little town in Louisiana, something that I would have never reached for," he continued.
"How could I ever be angry?"
"I think a lot of people don’t realize I didn’t grow up with Tug," Tim said in a 2019 Today interview.
"I didn't know Tug was my dad. I found my birth certificate when I was 11 years old. And, like I said, we didn't have a whole lot, and I was in my mom's closet, I was digging through something and found my birth certificate."
"It said McGraw. My name was Smith as a kid because my stepdad's name was Horace Smith," Tim continued.
"It changed what I thought I could do with my life coming from the circumstances I came from. I felt like when I found that out, you know, he's a professional baseball player who's successful, to me, it made me think that blood is in my veins, so that ability is in there."
"So I found sort of that grit inside me that he must have had in order to succeed at what he did," he continued.
"And it changed what I thought I could make out of my life."
