Tim McGraw Got Sober For Wife Faith Hill

It may be hard to believe given the success of Tim McGraw in music and movies, but the singer told Country Music Men's Health used to be so nervous before walking on stage I had to drink to find the courage to action. Substance abuse became a habit year duration.

"I remember my mom Tellin 'me' You know, if you do not get up there a couple of times without doing that, it'll be a problem, '" McGraw said in the current issue.

And as his career continued to grow, his mother turned out to be correct.

"I drank too much," he said. "I had fun. And they did other things too. Chemically. No needles or that sort of thing, but ... use your imagination."

He said that seven years ago, there were many times that took the stage without "something in my system."

"When your wife tells you that it has gone too far, that's a big wake-up call," McGraw told the magazine, which is available for download and will be in stores on Tuesday. "That, and realize that you will lose all you have. Monetarily No, not career-wise, but the family is concerned."

He said his daughters - Gracie, 17, Maggie, 15, and Audrey, 12 - also played a role in him cleaning his act.

"It got to a point where my children get older, and it was past the point where they realized it," he said. "And I realized that they realized. That's enough to straighten out."

And then I saw his "big fat face" in a preview of the film "Home."

"I thought, 'O the (bad) has to go, trust has to go, something has to go,'" he said.

And he did.

McGraw is now eating kale salad, working in parking lots before shows and rocking a set of abs that men Health said that "if you drove a van to the abs, you'd need new crisis in the moment we crossed the pectorals. "

"" I'll be the first to admit that I take it to extremes," the singer told the magazine after a workout." I'm not one of those people who can sorta half (do) something. "