Cheryl Burke Celebrates 4 Years of Sobriety: 'One Day at a Time'

Mar. 15, 2025

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Cheryl Burkemarked a milestone in her sobriety.

TheDancing with the Starspro, 38, shared onTikToklate Sunday that she had celebrated four years of sobriety over the weekend.

“Realizing I just celebrated 4 years of MY SOBRIETY 🙏,” Burke wrote in the 11-second video, responding to an on-screen prompt that asked her, “What am I celebrating?”

The video features Burke posing in various jackets and sunglasses over several visual transitions, all set to an ofBillie Eilish’s hit song “Bad Guy.”

Burke simply left 🎉🙏🏼🎉🙏🏼 emojis in her caption for the TikTok, along with the hashtags “#soberlife,” “#onedayatatime,” “#soberbirthday” and “#sobrietyrocks,” among others.

“I don’t wanna say that I’ve been feeling like drinking again lately, but it’s definitely been on my mind a lot more than normal,” she said. “I talked to my therapist about it and I guess also because I haven’t been very active with the program and with taking that fourth step that I seem to be stuck on for like the longest time now, but I’m going to slowly get back into it.”

The dancer said that it’s been helpful for her to go public with her sobriety struggles because “once you call it out, the shame goes away.”

Cheryl Burke.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images

Burke told Vargas she would drink with an “all or nothing” approach and was often “super mean” to herself, which made her drink more, noting that her tolerance for alcohol eventually reached a point where she said, “nothing got me drunk.”

“I was drinking because I was numbing, and we all know that that’s a scary place,” she said, adding, “It was survival mode constantly, seven days a week for me.”

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She decided to quit drinking for good when she started to have allergic reactions to alcohol, particularly when a single shot of whiskey caused her to break out in hives at her engagement party.

“I had this saying: ‘I don’t trust people that are sober,'” Burke told Vargas about her past views on sobriety. “There’s obviously some demons that they’re living. I was so ignorant to the fact that everything that I thought was weak is actually the most courageous thing you can possibly do.”

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

source: people.com