Guys in recovery from drug/alcohol addiction love to subtly brag about how much of a degenerate they were

Especially celebrities who find a way to get a hold of a podcast mic.

The way guys like Dax Shepard tell stories about their addictions basically goes:

“Yeah I took some Percocet and then cheated on my girlfriend with a lady I met at a party and then left and fucked this girl I met on MySpace and then drank myself to sleep and then went on to be a millionaire coke addict and im so deeply ashamed of my actions”

I assume this is how addiction help groups and some AA meetings go too.