New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia first realized three years ago he was an alcoholic.
Sabathia left the team for treatment ahead of its loss to Houston in the one-game AL wild-card playoff and went public with his problem.
"In 2012, I kind of came to the realization I was an alcoholic, and I was kind of battling it without any help," he told ABC in an interview broadcast Friday, his first remarks to media since treatment.
"I would go a couple, you know, two, three months at a time sober, and then I would just relapse, and, you know, go on these weekends when I thought nobody was paying attention, and I would get in a hotel room and drink out of the minibar, pretty much everything.