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Cook: 'Getting sober was the hardest thing'

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June 29, 2026

DJ FATBOY Slim has called his alcohol addiction a “parasite” and said getting sober was “probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done”.

Cook: 'Getting sober was the hardest thing'

The musician, 62, also opened up about struggling with anxiety after going to rehab, and said he was “paralysed” and “rigid with fear” when he returned to performing after going to rehab.

Fatboy Slim, real name Norman Quentin Cook, checked into a rehab facility in 2009 as he was battling alcoholism and has since been sober for almost 15 years.

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