Everclear frontman Art Alexakis joins Tom Arnold for an unplanned, deeply honest conversation about addiction, blackout drinking, childhood trauma, fame, anger, fatherhood, and what it actually takes to stay sober long-term.

What was supposed to be a standard Art Alexakis interview turned into one of the most raw and unforgettable sobriety stories ever recorded on the Soberness Podcast.

This episode captures what happens when two very famous, very sober men realize — live — that their stories are disturbingly similar.

In this Art Alexakis / Everclear interview, they talk about:

💥 Being blackout drunk for days at a time — and losing entire weeks 💥 The night Art hit rock bottom when his wife searched morgues thinking he was dead 💥 The white-light surrender that led to 36+ years sober 💥 Why rock-and-roll sobriety looks very different in your 60s 💥 Childhood sexual abuse — and why men need to tell these stories 💥 Rage, yelling, and breaking generational cycles as fathers 💥 Being sober, but still a "dry drunk" 💥 Fame, dopamine, shame, and why success doesn't fix addiction 💥 Spirituality without religion — and finding peace after chaos

This is more than an Everclear frontman Art Alexakis interview.

It's a powerful sobriety podcast episode about survival, honesty, and freedom from the things that nearly destroy us.

If you're searching for real sobriety stories, recovery conversations, or interviews that go far beyond the surface — this one will stay with you.

MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LOVE:

Comedian Tom Arnold Tells All | Rosanne, Addiction, Relapse, Getting Sober: https://youtu.be/kShxbIL6Gf0

American Pie Jason Biggs Opens Up About His Addiction & Relapse Struggles: https://youtu.be/KrWRTLYE618

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ABOUT SOBERNESS:

Soberness—the concept—is freedom from f**kery:

The f**kery of addiction.

The self-inflicted f**kery.

And the f**kery that shows up uninvited.

Soberness—the podcast—is where celebrity raconteurs spill what broke them, what saved them, and what still f**ks with them today.

From Talk Stoop creator and host Cat Greenleaf, Soberness is recorded at the Algonquin Hotel's iconic Round Table in Midtown Manhattan.

Once home to Dorothy Parker and her Vicious Circle of drunken critics and wits, the Gonk is a legendary hotbed of brilliance and bad behavior. A f**kery free-for-all.

In other words, it's a perfect fit.

ABOUT CAT GREENLEAF:

Cat created and hosted NBC's long-running series Talk Stoop—the celebrity interview show filmed on her Brooklyn front steps. Yep, the one with the bulldog that dominated NYC TaxiTV and USA Daytime in the 20teens. Over nine years, she hosted hundreds of guests, racked up four Emmys, launched countless adventures—and had so much fun.

Then she got fired. No fun.

After losing her job, she thought she'd never to go back to journalism. With no other marketable skills and no idea what to do next, she entered an epic dark night of the soul.

Looking for light, her family moved to the beach in Coney Island. There, Cat got serious about her own sobriety and began bringing recovery meetings to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and men. That work inspired her to found the nonprofit Restorative Housing Organization. RHO is dedicated to training formerly incarcerated men and women to renovate undervalued NYC waterfront properties, which are then rented to Section 8 tenants. She loves it. But once a journalist, always a journalist.

So when she weirdly got name-checked on Hacks last season, she took it as a sign. Soon after, she heard her old friend, musician Steve Earle, talking openly about his sobriety on a radio show —a thing she didn't know people were even allowed to do. And she realized she wanted to be the one talking to Steve Earle about sobriety on a show! Soberness was born in September 2024.

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Everclear's Art Alexakis Hit Bottom "My Wife was Searching Morgues for me"