Scott Parks, the co-host of the “Dana & Parks” radio show on KMBZ, revealed on Thursday why he had been absent from the radio program for a month.
Addicted to alcohol for much of his adult life, Parks told The Star just before he returned to the air that a family trauma led him to break his sobriety.
He was in rehab locally for 30 days. "When that happens, you’re basically left with a couple of choices. One is either get better and go to a rehab facility — which I did. Or you can die. And I chose to go to a rehab facility for the last month.”
Parks said he was in rehab from Sept. 25 to Oct. 25, and announced that news at the top of the show, which he co-hosts with Dana Wright from 2 to 6 p.m. weekdays.
At the beginning of Thursday’s show, he told listeners, “I have made no secret over the years that I have struggled, and was in recovery, for alcohol, and had actually been sober for three years. It was a point of pride with me.”
He said that in late July, “a trauma hit my family,” which he did not detail. He began drinking again. “I have also heard it said that your disease is waiting out in the parking lot doing push-ups, waiting for you to come outside,” he said.
“That’s not true. Your disease is in the parking lot doing push-ups, squats and burpees, and he brought his friends and he’s pissed.”
He said he relapsed in late July, and his addiction to alcohol “crushed me, put me on the floor, put its foot on my neck and refused to let me get back up.”
It was Wright, he said, who first noticed his relapse and confronted him and, in spite of Parks’ anger and protest, called Parks’ brother. On the talk show, which discusses and debates current events, the two are friendly foils to each other — Wright expressing liberal viewpoints to Parks’ more conservative.
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