Charles Kelley of Lady A opens up about his journey to sobriety.

In the Friday, November 15 episode of the Hulu docu-series, It’s the whole country, Kelley, 43, opened up about giving up alcohol after that began to affect his marriage to wife Cassie McConnell Kelley, as well as his work.

“Success is a double-edged sword, for sure. You know, once you know what it feels like, and once you’ve been out there, it’s a drug in itself,” Kelley said on the series. “There’s a lot of doubt that can come in and there’s just a lot, I think, of keeping your ego in check. I had to come back from treatment.”

According to Kelley, Lady A pushed back their Request Line Tour a full year so he could go to a rehab facility in Utah.

“We kind of talked to our team about, you know, ‘what do we say? Why are we canceling the tour?” he recalled before revealing that he and bandmates Hillary Scott and Dave Haywood wanted to be “more honest” about the current situation.

“Dave and Hillary were such good friends throughout this journey,” he said. “And thankfully, I felt like I got this second lease on my career and my marriage.”

The country singer previously revealed that McConnell Kelley, 41, with whom he shares a sonhad planned to see a divorce attorney before entering rehab.

“When he was in rehab and I went out there for family week, one of the first messages you get is, ‘You’re going to have to do just as much work here.’ And I remember being so angry,” Kelley’s wife previously said during an appearance on CBS Morning. “Like, you did this. And now I have to do all this work, too? But … it affects every person in that family system. So I could have chosen not to do the work, but then I have to live with So if I and Charles was in a marriage or not, if I saw him again for the rest of my life, I still had to deal with what I had been through.

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Lady A shared a statement on Instagram in August 2022 when they first announced that their tour would be postponed.

“Being on the road with our fans is our greatest joy, so it was a difficult but important decision to make,” the group wrote. “We are a band, but more importantly… we are family. We are proud to say that Charles has begun a journey towards sobriety.”

Even during his appearance on It’s the whole country, Kelley said getting sober is the “best decision I ever made in my life.”

“It wasn’t my intention to really share my story that much. I just think it’s such a common occurrence and we all struggle with it. The stage of my career that I’m at and the stage of my life that I’m in, I want to be able to give something back too, in a positive way, even if it’s just a little encouragement, he said.

If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, please contact SAMHSA’s Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP.