Taste Flav Celebrates 4 Years of Sobriety!

Taste Flav is celebrating an enormous milestone whereas serving to others in their very own journeys.

The well-known rapper and hype man shared an Instagram put up on Thursday in honor of World Psychological Well being Day that defined he was paying it ahead whereas sharing a few of his personal story.

Taste Flav, 65, is celebrating an upcoming milestone with a social media put up that might probably assist many individuals.

“October is a crucial month for my psychological well being. Subsequent week, I’m 4 years sober from alcohol. And at this time, is psychological well being consciousness day. My psychological well being is a crucial a part of my sobriety journey,” he wrote in his Instagram caption shared on October 10.

“I discuss to a therapist. Actually, I discuss to 2. I gots a loopy schedule and travels, my supervisor advisable making an attempt out Sonia – an AI therapist that has been there for me like Janet Jackson says – Any Time Any Place.”

In honor of the day, Taste Flav “reached out to the Sonia staff to cowl the price of subscriptions for anybody who indicators up at this time.”

He concluded his caption by saying, “Assist me assist you.”

Taste Flav’s Instagram put up rapidly grabbed tons of optimistic consideration. Many dropped into the remark part to maintain the psychological well being dialog going, and a few thanked him for his sort assist.

“So cool Flav. Haven’t been capable of get a therapist in a few years as a result of insurance coverage. I downloaded immediately. Thank u for all u do for this world,” one individual wrote within the feedback. One other added, “You might be wonderful. Congrats in your sobriety. And in addition that is actually cool about that Sonia app I am gonna test it out.”

One individual shared how studying Flav’s put up made them really feel. “I by no means dreamed I’d hear you hype for a neighborhood of individuals similar to me, or that even the unique hype man typically may want somebody to hype him up too. It feels a lot much less lonely. It appears like this time I’m actually actually being the one puffed up, cheered for, thought worthy. Thanks so much Flav. From the underside of my coronary heart. Thanks for all of it, however so much for this one specifically.”

One other viewer shared, “Thanks for being the change all of us want on this world. You might be doing nice issues, massive issues, for thus many individuals. You make me smile and I’m very completely happy to consider all of the folks that you simply’re serving to with this. Like to you and everybody within the feedback.”

Final 12 months, Flav celebrated the three-year anniversary of his sobriety on Instagram and was met with tons of help and type phrases.

“So superior!! Maintain going One Day At A Time,” one individual wrote. One other stated, “That is the last word flex! God bless you and sustain the greatness.”

In January 2023, Flav overtly admitted that nobody knew precisely what was happening with him on the top of his dependancy. Throughout an look on “Off the File with DJ Akademiks” podcast, he revealed how a lot he was spending on medicine.

“There was a time that I used to be spending $2,400 to $2,600 a day…for six years straight, you do the maths,” he stated. “That is how a lot I spent on medicine.”

He additionally stated that throughout the worst a part of his dependancy, he was spending almost $1 million a 12 months on medicine.

It is not a secret that Flav prides himself on his hype man talents in all conditions. He lately took his optimistic, high-energy persona to Paris to assist hype up the ladies’s water polo staff.

“You need folks to have vitality. You need folks to have enjoyable, the entire 9. You wish to hype them up and convey them into the second. Lots of people that’s probably not having enjoyable, I don’t name them being within the second. Being within the second is enjoyable,” he solely informed The Blast final month.

“Again within the day, we used to do our events, and the music is actually banging, however the individuals are simply sitting down and sitting round. No person’s on the dance ground, and also you need everyone to come back on, get up, man. It’s vital for me to hype folks up as a result of I need folks to be energetic like me.”

The rapper stated that one of the crucial wonderful moments in his life was his time on the Olympics hyping up the water polo staff.

“They received three back-to-back gold medals. I might like to see them actually make historical past and get that fourth gold medal, so I stated to myself, why not step as much as the plate, man? Assist these ladies out to see if we are able to push them in that route of getting that fourth gold medal. In order that was my function of supporting the water polo staff and being over in Paris making an attempt to be their hype man,” he defined.

“Regardless that my ladies completed fourth this 12 months, it’s okay, as a result of there’s at all times extra competitions and video games to come back. They did a fantastic job this 12 months. I commend the ladies and the fellows too. I commend all of them.”

After his wonderful and memorable expertise on the Paris Olympics and seeing all of the enjoyable Snoop Dogg was having as an Olympic torchbearer, Flav is manifesting his flip throughout the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

“Positively, you are going to see me in LA in 2028,” he informed The Blast.

“I already received my 28-bid prepared. I received my LA 28 shirt already. I am prepared. 2028, I am prepared. We prepared for that.”