"I appreciate you using your writing superpowers to share an experience that is very personal and has certainly been a stumbling block for you," he says. "It's not something I've ever really talked about and my kids don't even know, but I had a real alcohol problem myself,. It was so bad to the point to where I was the first one at the liquor store at six AM at opening as, you know, couldn't wait for that door to open."