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TOASTED CHESNUTT BACK FROM BRINK
Globe US
|May 26, 2025
COUNTRY great Mark Chesnutt has shockingly revealed he was a non-stop boozer and nearly drank himself into a coffin in a nightmare battle with the bottle.
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Mark Chesnutt is back on the road touring after quadruple bypass heart surgery last year
The 61-year-old Brother Jukebox singer rivaled Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson as country’s top hitmaker in the 1990s, but now admits he was soused during nearly all his performances.
“I wasn’t blasted every time [onstage], but it was close,” he recalls.
The boozing galloped completely out of control while he was shut in during the COVID-19 pandemic, when he says: “I drank all day, every day.
This story is from the May 26, 2025 edition of Globe US.
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