BOSTON — Fred Toucher returned to the “Toucher & Rich” program on 98.5 The Sports Hub on Friday, after spending many of the week at a detox facility.

Toucher, who despatched out a few regarding tweets over the weekend, mentioned he checked himself into the ability on Sunday for a 72-hour remedy. With Sunday and the vacation Monday not counting towards these hours, he mentioned he was launched from the ability on Thursday morning, permitting him to return to work on Friday.

“What I did was I said, all right here’s what I can do. I can stay home and the likely scenario for this will be that I will read this [tweet] again, I will become embarrassed, and I will drink, and then I will just make things a thousand times worse, and it will just feed on itself until something bad happens, until something really bad happens. So what I decided to do though, was I decided to check myself into a detox on Sunday morning,” Toucher told co-hosts Jon Wallach and Ryan Johnston to begin Friday’s show.

Co-host Rich Shertenlieb, who had been in Tuesday by Thursday, was not in on Friday.

“I was voluntarily locking myself up so I wouldn’t drink anymore, so I knew I wouldn’t drink,” Toucher defined. “That’s how I felt like, I was like, all right, I’ve lost control, I’ve lost control of alcohol, I’ve lost control, I’m not thiking like me, I need to make sure that I’m in a position where I do not have the opportunity to drink,” Toucher mentioned. “Was it fun? It was the worst five days of my entire life.”

Toucher had only in the near past returned to the present after lacking prolonged time because of the lack of his voice. That difficulty ended up being resolved with remedy, although Toucher shared that he and docs had feared the basis trigger could have been most cancers. Toucher additionally missed an prolonged time period in 2020 whereas present process rehabilitation for alcohol dependancy.

Toucher mentioned he is now placing within the continued work obligatory to keep up his well being.

“The setup I have right now is by far the most gnarly setup I’ve had. I’m talking about like four hours a day of intense therapy for alcohol and intense therapy for anxiety,” he mentioned. 

He added: “Got out yesterday morning and immediately went to an outpatient facility, then went to a therapist. Right after the show today, I’m going back to that outpatient facility. So I’m taking this recovery very, very seriously.”

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