CHRIS OLSEN: “It’s Rehab or You Lose Us” - My Family Made Me Choose
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot
4.6 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Chris Olsen is one of the biggest social media stars in the world. He joined TikTok in 2020 and quickly became a viral sensation. I’ve admired him for a long time - his social media content is so funny, honest, and just impossible to scroll past.
But what I didn’t fully appreciate until this conversation was just how much he’s been through to get to where he is today.
Chris opens up about getting sober at 19 - before he’d ever had a legal drink - and the intervention that forced him into an impossible choice: choosing between his family and alcohol.
We cover:
- His journey to sobriety and what it’s taught him
- The heartbreaking moment his mum told him she was an alcoholic
- How he handles online criticism without it defining him
- The best advice Meghan Trainor ever gave him
- How Chris met his new boyfriend Harrison
This conversation is about choosing yourself, even when it’s hard, and about building a life that feels worth protecting.
Chris Olsen is Great Company.
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Executive Producer: Ewan Newbigging-Lister
Producer: Helen Burke & Jack Claramunt
Assistant Producer: Issy Weeks-Hankins
Video: Jake Ji & Josh Bennett
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Audio: Rafi Amsili Geovannetti
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| 0:00.0 | My childhood felt idyllic. |
| 0:01.4 | It felt like everything was good. |
| 0:02.7 | And then it was all just taken away very quickly. |
| 0:05.7 | We had an intervention and my family just sent me down to rehab. |
| 0:08.4 | If I didn't go that day, that I would be cut off from the entire family. |
| 0:12.0 | Wow. |
| 0:12.6 | Got to my sister and she started sobbing. |
| 0:15.5 | And she was just like, please don't make dad read his letter. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm like always get emotional when I talk about this specific conversation. |
| 0:23.6 | Hi, I'm Chris Olson, and I'm in great company. |
| 0:26.8 | Introducing Chris Olson. |
| 0:29.0 | Okay. |
| 0:30.3 | I tap out. |
| 0:31.2 | This is it. |
| 0:32.1 | How many photos do you have total? |
| 0:33.5 | It becomes unfathomable in a way. |
| 0:35.6 | One of the strongest opinions here is anger about me after the Golden Globes. |
| 0:40.1 | I opened the comment section and the top five comments were about being angry at me that I was there. |
| 0:46.1 | It's almost like a jealousy thing in a way. If I'm really honest with myself, it is a marker of success. |
| 0:51.2 | When your mom says I'm an alcoholic, do you even know what that is? |
| 0:53.7 | Every morning |
| 0:54.3 | it became tears in the car in the morning. That's a lot to handle. It just became a much harder |
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