Actor Dax Shephard Celebrates 12 Years of Sobriety With Message to Wife Kristen Bell

09/01/2016 07:45 pm EDT

Actor Dax Shephard celebrated 12 years of sobriety Thursday, and he shared the news with a sweet message on Twitter about his wife Kristen Bell.

"12 years ago today I came out of my last toxic, life threatening stupor," he wrote. "I now have a wife & babies & some self-esteem #gratitude #promises."

Shephard has long been vocal about his struggle with addiction, previously telling Playboy about his preferred vices.

"I just loved to get f---ed-up—drinking, cocaine, opiates, marijuana, diet pills, pain pills, everything," he said. "Mostly my love was Jack Daniel's and cocaine. I lived for going down the rabbit hole of meeting weird people. Of course, come Monday I would be tallying up all the different situations, and each one was progressively more dangerous. I got lucky in that I didn't go to jail."

Bell also spoke about Shephard's addiction and how it affected their relationship in a recent interview with E! News.

"My husband is in recovery and is almost 13 years sober," the actress explained. "And seeing the world through his eyes has really opened mine to knowing that it is a disease and nobody is choosing to drink more than others, they are doing it because of a variety of reasons and they deserve the attention of a mental health professional, and not the county jail or however else we're choosing to pretend we're fixing the problem."

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