AJ McLean: Backstreet’s Back! Rehabilitation, Sobriety & Relapse
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Mayim Bialik
4.8 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Mayim accompanies AJ along his journey from addiction to rehabilitation. Mayim and AJ discuss alcohol and substance use as an ongoing battle between sobriety and relapse. AJ goes into depth on the genesis of the Backstreet Boys and how his bandmates/friends helped him to see he needed help. Mayim and AJ talk about the pressures of growing up in the public eye and the difficulty of switching between "stage" personas and their own personas. The conversation segues into self-care, and AJ talks about his mountain biking, golfing, and nail painting escapades. Mayim and AJ get down to the crux of addiction: It is not about the substance, it is about why sober living is so painful.
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| 0:00.0 | My sponsors always told me like you know it's not we don't like to say alcoholism we like to say |
| 0:09.6 | piece of shit as people have this misconceived idea that drugs and alcohol is the problem it's not |
| 0:19.6 | the problem that's a symptom the problem starts inside. Hi, I'm Iambi Alec and welcome to my |
| 0:27.6 | breakdown. This is the place where we break things down so you don't have to. It's my |
| 0:30.8 | ambi Alec's breakdown. She's going to break it down for you because you know she knows a thing |
| 0:36.8 | or two. And now she's going to break down. It's a breakdown. She's going to break it down. |
| 0:44.4 | Why am I sitting so far over here because I want to do this? |
| 0:51.6 | Who knows what those three chords are? Did you write that for me? I did not write that for you. |
| 0:55.9 | Sounds like an original. It's Backstreet Boys. Today we're going to be breaking down |
| 1:00.0 | Ajay McLean. I feel bad to say we're breaking down a human. But Ajay McLean was the the first cast |
| 1:06.4 | member of the Backstreet Boys. And we're going to talk to him about his journey from age 14 to now, |
| 1:15.0 | what it was like being in the Backstreet Boys, what kind of mental health challenges |
| 1:20.3 | presented themselves. And also something he's very public about we'll be talking about his |
| 1:24.6 | addiction and recovery. He calls himself a chronic relapsor and he talks all about |
| 1:30.0 | gosh, he talks about some really intimate things that happen very publicly, but we get the |
| 1:34.8 | inside scoop here. Jonathan, how excited are you? My favorite, favorite Backstreet Boys. Jonathan |
| 1:42.1 | Cohen. Hello, Maim. And I knew it wasn't for me. Everything. But I wish it was. |
| 1:49.5 | Do you want to tell everybody anything? I want to tell everyone that if you haven't already |
| 1:53.3 | subscribed to the podcast, you can do so. And give us that five star review because it helps us |
| 1:58.2 | make more. And thank you so much for everyone who has visited biolic breakdown.com. That's BIA. |
| 2:04.6 | L.I.K. Breakdown.com. Now I can see that we're falling apart. Word of the day. |
| 2:11.9 | The word of the day today is going to be chronic relapse. And I know everyone out there who's saying |
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