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Andrew McCarthy Details How ‘Cheers’ Helped Him Get Sober in Rehab

Andrew McCarthy credited Ted Danson’s classic sitcom Cheers with helping him get sober. “I owe you a great, great debt, which you don’t know,” McCarthy, 63, told Danson, 78, on the Wednesday, May 20, episode of the “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast. McCarthy has previously opened up about seeking professional help for alcoholism at a Minnesota rehab center in 1992. (He once told London’s The Times that he would have landed in rehab “whether I was in the movies or not.” ) “In 1992, I was in an alcohol rehab in Minnesota,” he explained to Danson. “I was all played out. I was just 29 year...