“It’s weird because alcohol was an easy thing for me to give up.

It was holding onto how I romanticized the pain I liked to hold on to.”

As she remembered, she told her friends after the bash, “I need to stop.

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Something’s got to stop.

“Eric gave up drinking the second I did,” she previously told PEOPLE magazine.

“He said, ‘I’ll do it with you, babe.’

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It was like no biggie and he hasn’t gone back or looked back.”

“It’s just the way he is.