'I'M SO GRATEFUL THAT IT DIDN'T KILL ME'

AN ARREST LED HIM TO GET SOBER 17 YEARS AGO.NOW THE ROCKER OPENS A RECOVERY CENTER TO HELP OTHERS

- JEFF NELSON

PHISH'S TREY ANASTASIO ON OPIOID ADDICTION

On Thanksgiving Day in 2007, Phish frontman Trey Anastasio found himself behind bars. Arrested for heroin possession and driving while intoxicated 11 months prior, the rock star had violated his probation because he'd accidentally missed a court-mandated recovery meeting while he was doing volunteer work with the homeless. "I had to go to jail," Anastasio recalls. "It was three days and two nights, which is long enough." When he was released, he says, "my wife was leaning on the car like Lorraine Bracco in Goodfellas," with their young daughters by her side.

"I was kind of like, 'Did you have to take the kids out of school to see Dad coming out of jail?' And she said, 'If you don't want your kids to see you coming out of jail, you better stop going to jail."" Anastasio, now 59, hasn't been back since. He credits his support system-including his Phish bandmates, his wife, Susan, 58, and their daughters Isabella, 27, and Eliza, 29-for helping him stay sober the past 17 years after opioid addiction nearly stole everything from him.