I just saw Alice Cooper for the first time in April of this year. I have always heard what a great show he puts on, but I have to say it was awesome.
After years of severe drug use and alcoholism—to the point where he was “throwing up blood every morning”—Cooper hit a breaking point during his recovery from a cocaine addiction. He recounts a specific instance where he looked in the mirror and saw blood coming out of his eyes (which he believes may have been a hallucination or a spiritual wake-up call). He realized he was going to die if he didn’t change.
In the mid-1980s (specifically around the time of his 1986 album Constrictor), he and his wife Sheryl began attending church again and seeking Christian counseling. He has been sober ever since, credited his recovery to his faith, and often refers to himself as a “new creature.”
He famously summed up his conversion by saying:
“People say, ‘Think of all you gave up to be a Christian.’ What did I give up? Dying of alcoholism? I’m not giving anything up. I’m gaining everything.”
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