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8 сен 2025
NITA STRAUSS Celebrates 10 Years Of Sobriety: I 'Couldn't Ask For My Life To Have Turned Out Any Better'
The 38-year-old guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band credited her husband and manager Josh Villalta with helping her live her life without alcohol.
Earlier today (Friday, September 5),Strauss took to her Instagram to write: "Made it.
"I remember my first few weeks of sobriety with this vague idea of 'I'll see if I can do 10 years.' At the time, that number was PREPOSTEROUS. Might as well be a million billion years!! I thought I'd just bide my time, wait until things calmed down in my life and then everything could go back to normal. I had no concept of all the gifts sobriety would bring into my life and how much better the new normal would be!
"Sobriety still does not come 'easily' to me. I'm by myself a lot on tour and I have easy access to anything I want on the tour bus and dressing rooms… In fact I actually called the front desk in my hotel this week and asked them to please come and remove the massive quantities of alcohol from the room's minibar, because I knew I'd be here today, and even after all this time I still don't want to give in to that little voice that says 'you're alone in the room, you hit your goal of 10 years, no one will know if you have a lil celebration.' It's something that you work at quietly every day, on some days that it never crosses your mind and some days harder than others.
"Grateful for the support of @thejoshv through this whole journey and for my dear friends in recovery who have given me the best advice and reading lists.
"Sobriety can be a solitary road but it's important to know that you don't have to walk it alone when you don't want to!!
"Celebrating here with an iced coffee walk before rehearsal. Couldn't ask for my life to have turned out any better".
In a separate post on his Instagram, Villalta praised his wife for reaching the huge milestone of a decade of sobriety.
"TEN YEARS!! What a landmark," he wrote.
"This was the first big fork in the road for us, and the way we were living just wasn't working. Then Nita said something that changed everything 'I'll never drink again.' She'd tried before, but this time she promised it would be different. She made that choice and her life transformed almost immediately. It was like a rocket booster was strapped to her back….she just soared.
"To let go of something that once felt 'fun,' something that had been such a big part of her life… to choose US over that and then to stay true to that decision for 3,645 days straight is nothing short of incredible. At any moment she could have slipped, but instead….she stayed strong. It wasn't an easy decision to make and keep, but I'm so grateful she did. I always knew that wasn't the person she was and not living her full potential.
"I'm constantly in awe of her headstrong determination and her ability to stick with what she sets her mind to. And that hasn't gone unseen, it's felt by people around the world who look to her for hope and inspiration. She's not just transformed her own life, she's helped others make the same choice to step into sobriety. She is a beacon of light to so many.
"Thank you for choosing happiness.
Thank you for choosing a path that has made our lives more beautiful than I could have ever imagined.
I'm thankful for you. I'm inspired by you.
And most of all, I'm so incredibly proud of you.
"Please go show her some love today, she deserves it and so much more."
During a December 2021 appearance on "Guitar Autopsy", the video podcast hosted by Rusty Cooley, Strauss spoke about how she managed to lose 50 pounds and get sober while on tour back in 2015.
"My whole approach to sobriety and health and fitness is to educate but not ever force," she said. "I wouldn't ever want it to be, like, 'You have to stop drinking. You have to do cardio every day,' or whatever. All I can share is really what worked for me, and that was alcohol was extremely, extremely detrimental in my personal life.
"I got sober in 2015 and I basically just decided to make the most of it and said, 'If I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do it right,'" she continued. "And I switched from going to the bar after the show to going to the Barbell in the morning, for lack of a better term. [Laughs] I hooked up with great bodybuilding coaches that [helped] me [with] my diet and my workout while I'm on the road. I use the right supplements, I eat the right food. I have dieticians at RP Strength, I have a workout coach, I take all the right supplements, I drink my green drinks, I take all my vitamins and I stay on track. And the more I did it, people in our community — the rock and metal community — were starting to ask how I did it. And I was writing these long captions on my phone: 'First things first, you drink a lot of water…' da da da. And so I thought why not inspire people to do more. So I created 'Body Shred'. And 'Body Shred' is the first fitness challenge that I know of that is aimed at the music community."
In 2020, Strauss also credited Villalta with helping her live her life without alcohol. At the time, she wrote: "I thought I needed a drink for just about everything. To be confident on stage. To be social after shows. To celebrate. To mourn. To take the edge off frustration or the sting out of a bad day. To relax and laugh at lunch with girlfriends, or watch football with the guys on Sundays. I was terrified that my life was going to change, that without alcohol I wouldn't be ME anymore, that I would lose my circle of friends, and my onstage charisma, and become someone else. ALL those things happened... but not in the way I thought they would.
"Change came first in my relationship, in the form of less fighting and drama, and more productivity, peace and love. Thank you @thejoshv for being the catalyst to the best thing I ever did for myself. I love you.
"The ME that I was before would have stayed up until 6 am at the bar or in the bus front lounge. The ME that I became would rather get up at 6 and get to the gym before starting the day.
"My busy circle of friends was almost immediately reduced to a core 3. I've learned that when it comes to friendships, quality is ALWAYS better than quantity. If your friends have no interest in spending time with you after you make a change for the better, they weren't your real friends.
"My first show without alcohol was in front of 15,000 people. I felt like a scarecrow someone had propped up on stage to scare birds. Nothing felt natural. I was going through the motions, with this absurd idea running through my head 'everyone is looking at me. Everyone knows.'
"I went out by the bus to talk to fans afterward, and do you know what they said? 'Wow you were so great! Where do you get all that energy? You add so much to Alice's band!'
"ALL of that insecurity, ALL the fears, ALL the doubt was in my head. Those are your demons that make you think you need them.
"I'm content to sit at the bar, order a soda water with lime and watch the game now. I wouldn't trade back to my old life for anything."
Back in 2018, Nita spoke openly about how she got finally sober in September 2015, saying that Josh has always been "a tough-love type" in the way she approached her sobriety. "He's, like, 'Look, you're on this path, and I support you, but I'm not changing the way I do things at all," she explained in an interview with "Chasing Glory With Lilian Garcia". "And I'm kind of glad, in retrospect, that he did that, because it threw me into the fire and showed me, like, 'Hey, you can be [around people who are drinking] and not drink.' He has continued to drink throughout [this entire period], but he didn't want me to drink, because when I would drink, I would start fights and I would get emotional and I would overreact to stupid things, like you do when you drink — it's part of drinking; it heightens all your emotions and everything." Nita also revealed that she has never participated in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) to help her stay sober.
Strauss has been playing with Alice Cooper since 2014 when she replaced Australian musician and former Michael Jackson player Orianthi. She joined Alice in time for a mammoth MÖTLEY CRÜE tour. She was recommended to Cooper by the legendary rocker's former bass player and WINGER frontman Kip Winger.
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