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Tim McGraw Says Faith Hill Helped Him Overcome A Drinking Problem

Tim McGraw wrote an essay for Esquire about his life, family, and he was quite candid on many subjects including the fact that his wife Faith Hill helped him to overcome a…

Tim McGraw Says Faith Hill Helped Him Overcome A Drinking Problem
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Tim McGraw wrote an essay for Esquire about his life, family, and he was quite candid on many subjects including the fact that his wife Faith Hill helped him to overcome a drinking problem. 

Tim wrote in the publication, "I remember a moment when I was getting out of bed and going to the liquor cabinet and taking a big shot at 8:00 in the morning and thinking, I have to wake the kids up. I went straight to my wife and said, 'This is where I’m at.' I was scared. She just grabbed me and hugged me and changed my life."

He added, "I didn't know love could feel so good. Was it an emotion? Was it a lifestyle? Was it an imaginary thing? But love is all of those things. And love is being angry. Love is not talking for a day. Love is getting in each other’s faces. Love is accepting that I’m wrong. Love is a 360-degree thing. It’s not linear."

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.