Dax Shepard Opens Up About How He Told His Children About His Relapse | THR News - video Dailymotion

The actor last September revealed he began abusing pills after 16 years of sobriety.

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00:00Dax Shepard is opening up about how he told his children that he had a drug relapse last year.

00:05During an interview on Chelsea Clinton's In Fact podcast on Tuesday,

00:08the 46-year-old actor said he and wife Kristen Bell are open and honest with their daughters,

00:13Lincoln, age 8, and Delta, age 6.

00:15They knew, like, when they relapsed, we explained,

00:18well, Daddy was on these pills for surgery, and then Daddy was a bad boy,

00:22and he started getting his own pills, and yeah, we tell them the whole thing.

00:26Shepard, who is also the co-host of his own podcast, Armchair Expert,

00:30revealed in September that he relapsed after 16 years of sobriety.

00:34Shepard told Clinton of his daughters they know that Dad goes to an AA meeting every Tuesday and Thursday.

00:39He then shared this story from when his oldest daughter was around 3 years old.

00:42And she said, where are you going? And I said, I'm going to AA.

00:46She said, why do you have to go? I go, because I'm an alcoholic,

00:49and if I don't go there, then I'll drink, and then I'll be a terrible dad.

00:52Shepard went on to say this.

00:53And she said, can I go? And I said, well, no,

00:56you got to be an alcoholic. And she goes, I'm going to be an alcoholic.

01:02And I said, you know, you might become one.

01:05The odds are not in your favor.

01:07For more on this story, go to THR.com.

01:10For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.