Carl Radke has been candid about the ups and downs in his sobriety — much of which was captured on Summer House.
The Pittsburgh native has been on the Bravo hit since its 2017 premiere. After four seasons of drunken antics with his costars, he got sober in spring 2020. Radke started drinking again, however, ahead of production on season 5 in summer 2020.
“I basically got sober from March [2020] until the middle of June. Going into the season, I was feeling really good,” he recalled to Us Weekly in February 2021. “I learned a lot about myself; I don’t have to drink to be fun or to be the cool guy. … And I certainly had some other things I was working on personally and it’s just better to work on those when you’re sober.”
After Radke’s brother Curtis died of a drug overdose in 2021, he hit his “lowest” point and got sober for good.
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