Alert – Elle Macpherson reveals she still attends regular AA meetings following her decision to quit alcohol 20 years ago: ‘Without being sober, I wouldn’t be here’

Elle Macpherson has revealed that she attends AA meetings to keep a grip on her sobriety.

The supermodel quit booze in the lead up to her 40th birthday and works diligently to steer clear of her past bad habit. 

‘To tell you the truth…I just wanted a break and it was a fantastic time for me to address a lot of things that I hadn’t had the time to examine,’ she told Nova 96.9’s Fitzy & Wippa with Kate Ritchie this week of her decision to quit.

‘It’s been amazing getting sober and staying sober. It has been the foundation of all of my life, really, because without being sober, I wouldn’t be here’. 

The n model also shared an anecdote from a recent AA meeting she attended. 

‘Yesterday I went to a meeting, and it was really funny, because one of the guys was talking about how he was embarrassed about going to AA meetings in the beginning but he wasn’t embarrassed about falling out of a nightclub or p*ssing his pants,’ she explained.

‘We have such preconceived ideas about how horrible life is going to be without alcohol, and I’m living proof that life can be so joyous and so free and so powerful’. 

Elle added that her biggest fear when becoming sober was, ‘the fear of being my true self’.

Elle Macpherson (pictured) has revealed that she attends AA meetings to keep a grip on her sobriety. The supermodel quit booze in the lead up to her 40th birthday and works diligently to steer clear of her past bad habit

The star previously said the turnaround came during a difficult period in her life. 

‘I stopped drinking in 2003 because I felt I couldn’t be fully present in my life and it was a wonderful springboard of getting to know myself on a deeper level,’ she told Body+Soul.

Elle added that she had an ‘awakening’ once she removed alcohol from her life. 

‘Everybody has their own journey and I’m not interested in telling other people what to do but I know that this was a decision that I’ve never regretted,’ she said.

‘Although it required discipline and persistence the bottom line is you can’t be well and present in your life if you’re not present and well, and alcohol doesn’t really support that. 

‘It’s very difficult to get to know yourself if you’re numbing yourself.’ 

‘It’s been amazing getting sober and staying sober. It has been the foundation of all my of all my life, really, because without being sober, I wouldn’t be here,’ she said 

Elle celebrated 20 years of sobriety in September and proudly shared a photo of her blue and gold Alcoholics Anonymous tri-plate token 

Elle celebrated 20 years of sobriety in September last year and proudly shared a photo of her blue and gold Alcoholics Anonymous tri-plate token on Instagram.

The beauty, who was nicknamed ‘The Body’ by Time magazine in 1989, also previously reflected on getting sober. 

‘It’s funny, 40 is such an introspective year,’ she told Gritty Pretty magazine in 2020.

‘I actually got sober when I was 40. I felt like I wanted to spend time in introspection,’ she continued.

‘I stopped drinking in 2003 because I felt I couldn’t be fully present in my life and it was a wonderful springboard of getting to know myself on a deeper level,’ she said previously

Elle also previously told Ocean Drive magazine that she started to focus on health and wellness in her 40s.

‘Beauty at every age is such a boring cliché, but beauty is not just reserved for youth,’ she said.

‘There’s a big movement that supports that. I didn’t feel any kind of milestone pressure turning 50 at all, perhaps because I’ve been preparing for this stage of my life for a long time.’

‘By the time I hit 50, I didn’t feel any sort of plateau physically… It wasn’t like, Oh my gosh, I’d better get myself together before I turn 50; it was more like I was reborn.’