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Mark Chesnutt <\/a>took his final drink of alcohol on Nov. 1, 2023 after years of heavy drinking that worsened after a spinal surgery in 2021.<\/p>\n Read More<\/em>: Mark Chesnutt Reveals He Almost Died During Harrowing Alcoholism Battle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Chesnutt has opened up in the past about his alcoholism.\u00a0Now, he’s opening up about the specifics of how much he drank.\u00a0In a new interview with radio show\u00a0Big D and Bubba<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0the singer opened up about the stark details.<\/p>\n “I drank all day, every day,” Chesnutt says. “I’d get up in the middle of the night and drink. I’d never stop.”<\/p>\n Chesnutt says “I’d go through about a handle” of Tito’s vodka each day.<\/p>\n A handle of\u00a0alcohol is the big bottle with the handle, hence the name, and it equals roughly half of a gallon.<\/p>\n According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism<\/a>, a handle\u00a0of 80-proof distilled spirits equals about 39 and a half drinks. The NIAAA counts a “heavy drinking day” as five drinks per day for a man, four drinks per day for a woman.<\/p>\n That means that Chesnutt was consuming more than 7 times the amount he needed to in order to be considered a heavy daily drinker.<\/p>\n MAGNUM’S Discount LIQUOR’S<\/span><\/p> Chesnutt says\u00a0“I had to quit drinking or die.”<\/p>\n In November 2023, he asked his wife to call an ambulance for him, and she did.<\/p>\n He wound up staying in a hospital in Knoxville for a week as doctors worked to address the health issues that had been ongoing with him. Chesnutt says doctors gave him four blood transfusions and diagnosed him with esophageal varices, a result of cirrhosis.<\/p>\nHow Much Alcohol Did Mark Chesnutt Drink Every Day Before He Quit Drinking?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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