Jeff Dye has opened up about his drug bust on October 8, sharing that he is now sober.
“I’m an alcoholic,” Dye said on an episode of Marco DelVecchio’s podcast.Smoochie Town,’ adding, “I’m now 36 days sober.”
Before he chose sobriety, “I used to drink every night,” he said, “But just for fun … I was a high-functioning alcoholic … for about 20 years.”
He said most nights he would start watching sports at a bar, then move to a comedy club for a drink, then maybe visit another bar after that. He estimated that he has been doing this “every night since 2005”.
40-year-old comedian and television personality, who currently hosts a syndicated Fox game show Who is BLEEP?, gave details of what happened the morning of the accident in October. He was on his way to meet his ex-girlfriend (Kristin Cavallari) for coffee at 9am after a night of “partying and drinking” with about 15 friends at his house.
“I woke up late because I slept through the alarm. I jumped in a cold shower, put on a hat and just got into my Tesla,” he adds. “Teslas are very fast so I just lost control of my car and wrecked it. This is 9 hours after I went to sleep. It wasn’t like I was leaving a bar, I wasn’t hit with a hammer.”
He continues: “When I crashed, I was like hell — there’s probably still alcohol in my system. He adds that he didn’t feel drunk at the time of the crash.
Comedian Jeff Dye performs at The Ice House Comedy Club on July 27, 2023 in Pasadena, California.
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At that point, Dye explains, his first instinct was to get out of there. So he says he just ran out of the car. He says: “I didn’t think about it while driving like I might be driving drunk. I just think, it’s the next day, it’s early morning.”
In the podcast, Dye also says it was humiliating to be arrested in front of everyone in the cafe.
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Dye was charged with fleeing the scene of a traffic accident and driving under the influence, PEOPLE confirmed at the time.
He was arrested by the Burbank Police Department on Sunday, Oct. 8 at 9:56 a.m. local time and booked into the Burbank Jail nearly an hour later, according to public inmate records. He was released without bail at 1:04 p.m., following a judicial review.
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Stand-up comedian and actor Jeff Dye is seen arriving at his comedy show on May 13, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Sergeant Stephen Turner, Burbank Police Public Information Officer, told PEOPLE that authorities responded to a single traffic collision at Pass Avenue and Alameda Avenue around 9:30 a.m.
“Witnesses reported that the driver of the white Tesla crashed into a tree and the driver fled on foot,” said Sgt. Turner said. “Based on the witness description, the driver was located just a few blocks east of the scene and was taken into custody [an] investigation.”
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