Overview

• On July 23, Burke used an eight-slide Instagram post to mark her seventh year of sobriety.
• She recounted thinking she’d miss numbing pain, “liquid courage,” being the “fun one” and the “freedom” alcohol seemed to offer before calling addiction a “cage dressed up like a good time.”
• Burke said sobriety has bestowed on her “peace, presence, power, me,” and credited her faith in a Higher Power for ongoing strength.
• She encouraged those battling addiction to embrace recovery, promising that the world beyond rock bottom is more beautiful than imagined.
• Before quitting in 2018, the former Dancing with the Stars pro drank daily as a self-described “functioning drunk” until personal crises spurred her decision to stop.