Lucy Hale said this week “life feels so good” after getting sober, also recounting her “rock bottom” at age 32 before deciding to give up alcohol. Hale, who is two-and-a-half years sober, told People she “made the choice” to “do everything I could to get sober” on Jan. 2, 2022. “It was the scariest choice in my life, but also it’s been the best gift,” she said. “When I made that change, everything else changed. My whole life has changed.” For the Pretty Little Liars actress addiction started in her teens. “Since a very young age, I always felt alone and misunderstood,” she said, adding that alcohol “shut my brain off.” The journey to sobriety involved many turns. “It took many, many, many years, many relapses, many dark moments, many falling on my face quite literally, but figuratively as well to figure out what was working in my life, finding out why I was drinking, because removing alcohol is just one t of it,” she said. If she had continued, the singer said, “I would’ve lost everything I cared about.”