Matt Willis: I Got Married Three Days After Rehab
On The Mend
High Performance
4.9 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Recovery isn’t a straight line, and Matt Willis reflects openly on what that reality has meant for him.
In this solo episode, Matt speaks candidly about addiction, recovery, and the long process of learning to live differently. He explores the moments that forced him to confront himself, the challenges of trying to change alone, and the ongoing work required to stay well.
Rather than offering simple answers, Matt discusses the uncertainty, setbacks, and searching that shaped his recovery, alongside the role of responsibility, trust, and fatherhood in helping him find steadier ground.
This is a thoughtful, honest conversation about resilience, accountability, and what it really means to commit to change, without shortcuts, and without pretending recovery is linear.
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| 0:00.0 | Want to know who's coming up next? Hit follow wherever you get your podcast and you'll be the first to find out. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome back to On the Men. This episode is part two of my trip down memory lane. The moments that shaped me, the highs that lifted me and the lows that nearly broke me. Last time I opened up about my active addiction. Today I'm talking |
| 0:21.2 | about the other side of that story, my active recovery, what's really going on with my ADHD, |
| 0:26.8 | my mental health and the work I've had to keep doing every single day. You can go back and |
| 0:31.6 | watch part one if you want the full journey, but for now, let's jump back in. Obviously, |
| 0:36.4 | I am filming the intro to this episode, past the fact of recording this episode. |
| 0:41.3 | So this is why I have a tash in this, and I don't in the next one. |
| 0:44.8 | But enjoy. |
| 0:48.0 | And now we're going to go from the moment where things change to active recovery, right? |
| 0:52.5 | Because there was a very big shift in my life, which happened |
| 0:55.7 | when I decided enough was enough, right? So I think a lot of addicts get to that point in their |
| 1:02.4 | in their life, hopefully, when they have a point where they're just like, right, enough. I have had enough. |
| 1:10.7 | And I've tried it other ways I've tried getting clean |
| 1:16.6 | I've tried being sober for other people and it hasn't worked I needed to surrender my myself right |
| 1:24.7 | I needed to kind of go right this is point, I have had enough and I cannot do |
| 1:29.5 | this anymore. I need help. And, you know, they say you get on your knees and you ask for help, right? |
| 1:36.0 | And that's what happened to me. I think I was going to be getting married and I had a wedding |
| 1:42.1 | date coming up. And I couldn't stop up and I couldn't stop using. |
| 1:46.5 | I couldn't stop drinking. |
| 1:48.0 | I couldn't last a day. |
| 1:50.6 | I would wake up every day and say to myself, I'm not going to drink, right? |
| 1:57.3 | And I try to make it till 12pm. |
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