Lloyd Libiso stopped drinking alcohol in 2021.
Miia Sirén
Half past six -program host Lloyd Libiso, 30, does not drink alcohol. Fresh Hanna Tikander’s Sober In the episode of the podcast, Libiso remembers the year 2021, when he got sober.
For years, Libiso had numbed work stress with alcohol. Work pressure increased and popularity increased both on television and through podcasts, and Libiso spent weekends at various house parties and bars.
Libiso states in the episode that drinking was always a problem for him before he got sober. He is grateful that he has always remained close to work.
In December 2021, everything changed. Libiso was with his friends at the bar as usual, but something felt different.
– I drank three and a half pints, hit the pint on the table and said: “This was it”, Libiso recalls in the podcast.
Miia Sirén
Libiso’s friends had asked if he was really going home. The next morning, he woke up from his home, cried with happiness and realized that now he really is sober.
– I walk to the dome, I had a car in the yard. To be honest, in the old world I could have driven home after three and a half pints in my own village. Now I didn’t, he continues in the episode.
– Immediately certain ethical and moral values began to return more strictly to what I have, Libiso describes.
In the episode, Libiso tells how he has always thought that if you drink, you shouldn’t drive. Still, he could drive a car for short distances “in his own village”, even though he had been drinking.
– But then this small transition, Libiso describes his own behavior.
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