Booze is off my Script

Drummer Glen celebrating two years of being sober

The Script star Glen Power has revealed he has been completely off alcohol for almost two years.

The Hall Of Fame drummer, 31, admitted booze had turned into a “very negative” substance in his life which left him constantly “feeling s**t”.

And Glen feels he has finally conquered his demons.

He said: “It was one of those things in my life that it turned very negative on me and I woke up in a hotel room in Australia.

“And I said to myself, ‘I wonder what this job would be like if I was doing it healthy and I felt good all I time.

“I wonder how would I feel if I gave myself a chance to feel that’. And it’s been f*****g so amazing because the time I spent in pubs and bars and staying up all night drinking, I’ve now diverted that time into other things.

“And I’m getting more done with my life and suddenly the adventure of life is becoming very clear to me. Life is for living. You don’t realise the alcohol is a depressant.

“I was just getting up in the morning and feeling s**t all the time. It just got to the point where I didn’t like how I felt.” And Glen – who along with bandmates Danny O’Donoghue and Mark Sheehan begin their Dublin homecoming at the O2 tomorrow – admitted people thought he was weird.

He told Spin 1038: “It’s non-stop, it really is. Even when I’m abroad or when I meet people I haven’t seen in a while. They’ll say, ‘Come on man, we’ll go get a few beers’, and I’ll order a tonic water.

“Normally it could be an iced water and they’ll go, ‘What?’ It’s like they can’t stand with you. It’s like you’re not you anymore. I don’t know what that is. And then when we’re abroad when you jump into a cab if I’m in New York I’ll say, ‘How’s it going man, take me there’.

“And he’ll say, ‘Hey man, you’re Irish, Oh God you guys like to drink’. And I’m like, ‘I did – I don’t any more’.”

However, Glen will still head into pubs for a ginger ale with lemon and ice – but only spends a fraction of his time at the bar.

He said: “I’m not against pubs or going in. I grew up in the pubs. I was in there way before I should have been.

“But I just don’t spend 80% of my time in there now, sitting around. I spend 20% of my time in there and 80% living.

“I feel like somebody else. I feel like a nicer version of myself, that’s the only way I can describe it. I would say I’m a more enhanced, grounded, fair-minded and less self-centred person.” Glen and his bandmates are preparing to meet President Michael D Higgins at the Aras tomorrow.

He added: “We got official letters sent out to us on the Presidential paperwork, inviting us out there to meet him and do a song.

“It’s really mad in your lifetime to say you’ve been invited by the President of your country to go and do a song for him.”

Source: Daily Mail (FEB 2013) / Edited: DannyODonoghue.Net