Comedian Nikki Glazer’s journey of sobriety in her own words

a comedian Nicky Glazer has been open about her journey with sobriety since quitting alcohol in 2011.

“I drank every night of my life, and it was like the only thing I looked forward to in my life,” Glazer said in a December 2024 interview. for CBS before he is hosting for the first time The 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 5, 2025.

Glazer has also quit smoking both cigarettes and marijuana, and is also recovering from several eating disorders. “For me, drinking was the worst of them all,” she continued. “And it was kind of like a molehill with all those. But they never caused me as much pain as drinking. So I’m glad drinking just isn’t an option.

The Someday you will die the comedian has been sober for over a decade. Keep scrolling to see some of Glazer’s most candid quotes about getting sober—and staying that way:

October 2019

Glazer stopped drinking on December 9, 2011. – at least that’s what she said while appearing in “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast in 2019 During the interview, the comedian told how she woke up with one of the worst hangovers of her life after only drinking two beers the night before.

“I was at a point in my life where it had to stop because my hangovers got so ridiculous and debilitating for the whole day. I would pass out from two drinks,” she recalls.

“I woke up the next morning and I was the sickest I’ve ever been,” she continued. “So I was in the shower, in the fetal position, thinking, ‘This is how I must feel if I’m dying. I really don’t want to feel that bad unless I’m on my way. So I won’t be doing that anymore. I read one book and I’m done.”

Glazer credited her sobriety Alan Carrthe book of The easy way to stop drinking.

October 2021

Glazer opened up about his history of eating poorly and smoking marijuana in an episode of “The Mayim Bialik Breakdown” podcast.

“I stopped drinking 10 years ago, then I had bulimia, then I had to stop bulimia because I was getting acne in my mouth that I just couldn’t stand,” she explained. “So then I started starving, exercising, exercising, I was bulimic, then I smoked a ton of sweat.”

Glazer then noted that she was also thinking of leaving the pot for good. “I recently got to the point with pot where I was like, ‘It affects my vocal cords, it smells, I burn holes in everything, it’s illegal in a lot of places I go,'” she said. “I can’t smoke weed all day. … I’m making a commitment not to do it again and to kind of give it up the same way I did with alcohol.”

May 2022

In an interview for “Talking About Addiction” On a podcast hosted by the Addiction Centers of America, Glazer noted that “no one wants to inconvenience anyone in their life” while talking about a therapist of hers who had a stutter. He told her that other people would get frustrated as he talked about not being able to just “spit it out”.

“I really felt a lot of empathy from him and he said, ‘Why don’t you look at your illness as The Exorcist? That girl who is possessed by the devil? Why don’t you think so? Like a voice. That voice that says don’t eat, you should exercise. You’re not allowed to take in that many calories. Recognize the voice, but it’s not you. Be detached from your thoughts,” she explained, adding, “And that was the first step for me in a long journey. I mean, this was 20 years ago at the very beginning of my recovery. But it was really the essence of, ‘No it’s my fault. I’m not a bad person. I’m not, I’m just doing my best.”

Glazer went on to say that “what really freed me was that you don’t choose that, no one would choose to be an addict.”
“I always do my best and sometimes it looks really messed up,” she said. “But if I could be better, I would. I can’t And I think once I forgave myself for the things that seemed under my control and let go and stopped trying to control things that were really never my fault, I was able to let go of it.

October 2022

Glazer admitted, “I don’t think I’ll ever drink again” on an episode of “In Depth with Graham Bensinger.”

“Now I can dance without it, I can have sex without it,” she said. “For example, I used to drink because I was nervous to be around people – I don’t need that anymore. I don’t have social anxiety that way.

She added that after giving up alcohol, her “eating disorders intensified,” but noted that it was “better to abuse at that time than with alcohol.” She said, “Alcohol was like, I was going to get a DUI, which was going to destroy me financially and potentially physically destroy me or others.”

March 2023

“I was just at a point where I was drinking every night,” the comedian said Triad Urban rhythmadding that often young comedians “get money in booze” when they’re just starting out.
“Then I started seeing the hangover. I left because I had just picked up a pilot and it was my first big hit and you can’t do a show by sleeping 4 hours every day,” she said. “I saw that all the comics who did the most work didn’t drink; the most successful did not drink. It wasn’t a be-all decision for me, but I think it was the greatest decision I’ve ever made for me.”

July 2024

Glaser further praised Carr’s book, The easy way to stop drinkingin an episode of Plan Bri Uncut podcast.

“You’re brainwashed into thinking you have to drink to have fun or have a good time,” Glazer explained. “That’s what you think, but it’s not true. He pretty much refutes it, and by the end of it you’re like, “Oh wait, I guess whatever reason I had to drink doesn’t make sense anymore.”

She added: “Your life definitely changes. You pick up other things, you know, but nothing so bad as drinking, at least for me, I’ve never picked up yet.’