‘BAYWATCH: HAWAII’ STAR BRANDY LEDFORD SAYS SHE ‘WANTED TO TRULY CHECK OUT’ BEFORE REHAB SAVED HER LIFE<\/a><\/p>\n Ruston Kelly committed to sobriety after a freak golf cart crash. (Jason Kempin)<\/p>\n Kelly showed fans a gold Narcotics Anonymous token which read, “My gratitude speaks when I care and when I share with others the NA way.” Recovery chips are often shared in meetings to commemorate clean living milestones<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I told myself back in 2021 that as long as I wasn\u2019t using amphetamines that I would be on the right ‘clean’ journey for myself,” Kelly shared on Instagram. “I had never been addicted to any drug<\/a> other than those pills. I lumped in alcohol and THC etc initially because I thought that\u2019s what I was supposed to do.”<\/p>\n “Somewhere along the way I became obstinate in my journey, that I wasn\u2019t an ‘addict’ in the traditional sense of the word, that I was only addicted to amphetamines. ‘I\u2019ve never had a problem with alcohol, I\u2019ve never had a problem with XYZ.’ ‘See I can be like everyone else, I can show self control, I am in control.'”<\/p>\n LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n Kelly said that he’d believed he was only addicted to amphetamines before taking opioids for his injury. (Stephen J. Cohen\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n Despite reaching a point of “spiritual surrender,” Kelly admitted he was only attempting to “live a lifestyle that was satisfactory to my carnal impulses because I ‘never had a problem with them.'”<\/p>\n APP USERS CLICK HERE TO VIEW POST<\/a><\/p>\n In June, Kelly broke his arm “in half” following a golf cart accident where he overcorrected the vehicle and flipped the cart.<\/p>\n “After my accident where I broke my arm in half, I was given fentanyl morphine ketamine dilaudid and oxycodone<\/a> for 3 days leaving with a month long Rx of Percocet,” Kelly wrote. “I needed it for the level 15 pain but very quickly they started running out sooner and sooner.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n “I was chewing them in the pharmacy before I walked out the door. I was hiding how many at a time I was taking. I was complaining to the dr it wasn\u2019t enough.”<\/p>\n His new drug dependency “awakened something I hadn\u2019t felt in a very long time.”<\/p>\n The country singer admitted he was three days sober after relapsing. (Jason Kempin)<\/p>\n “On July 26 I decided to end any chance of ruining anything good,” Kelly confessed. “For my soul my wife my family my art and career and my people. I admitted that whether I like it or not I will forever have a substance abuse disease<\/a>.”<\/p>\n![\"Ruston](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ruston-kelly-guitar.jpg\")
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