Ruston Kelly surrendered to sobriety after a freak accident nearly derailed his life.
Kelly, 37, admitted he was three days sober after relapsing following a golf cart crash in June.
The country music singer reflected on the last few challenging months in a candid social media post shared Wednesday with followers.
Kelly showed fans a gold Narcotics Anonymous token which read, “My gratitude speaks when I care and when I share with others the NA way.” Recovery chips are often shared in meetings to commemorate clean living milestones.
“I told myself back in 2021 that as long as I wasn’t using amphetamines that I would be on the right ‘clean’ journey for myself,” Kelly shared on Instagram. “I had never been addicted to any drug other than those pills. I lumped in alcohol and THC etc initially because I thought that’s what I was supposed to do.”
“Somewhere along the way I became obstinate in my journey, that I wasn’t an ‘addict’ in the traditional sense of the word, that I was only addicted to amphetamines. ‘I’ve never had a problem with alcohol, I’ve never had a problem with XYZ.’ ‘See I can be like everyone else, I can show self control, I am in control.'”
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Despite reaching a point of “spiritual surrender,” Kelly admitted he was only attempting to “live a lifestyle that was satisfactory to my carnal impulses because I ‘never had a problem with them.'”
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In June, Kelly broke his arm “in half” following a golf cart accident where he overcorrected the vehicle and flipped the cart.
“After my accident where I broke my arm in half, I was given fentanyl morphine ketamine dilaudid and oxycodone for 3 days leaving with a month long Rx of Percocet,” Kelly wrote. “I needed it for the level 15 pain but very quickly they started running out sooner and sooner.
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“I was chewing them in the pharmacy before I walked out the door. I was hiding how many at a time I was taking. I was complaining to the dr it wasn’t enough.”
His new drug dependency “awakened something I hadn’t felt in a very long time.”
“On July 26 I decided to end any chance of ruining anything good,” Kelly confessed. “For my soul my wife my family my art and career and my people. I admitted that whether I like it or not I will forever have a substance abuse disease.”
He added, “ALL drugs/substances including alcohol and THC are off the table for good (working on nicotine) That if there is something that will scratch an itch I didn’t think I had, I will use it beyond excess and into addiction.
“I am 3 days completely clean and sober again, and intend to remain this way forever, one day at a time.”
