“I remember drinking it off in the morning. “I think I remember liking it more than the other guys,” he said, smiling. He would sneak alcohol when he could as a boy, drinking more openly in high school at baseball and football team field parties. His mother ran preschool programs at the local Southern Baptist church, where the family went regularly.Īnd Gilbert loved sports, playing wide receiver on the football team, outfield on the baseball team. “I’d dump 100-pound bags of stuff into the grinder and stack all the bags,” he said. Gilbert has only hazy memories of his childhood, but he clearly remembers working on the back of an insulation blow truck at 5 a.m. his father stopped preaching and started an insulation company. Just after Gilbert was born - on Super Bowl Sunday 1985, in rural Jefferson, Ga. His parents met at Johnson Bible College near Knoxville, and his dad went on to become a pastor. Gilbert, 32, grew up working hard, playing hard and praying hard. In his head, Gilbert raged: You don’t know me, man. Urban, calm and quiet, asked Gilbert to tell him what was going on. “I remember thinking, these (expletives) are pulling out all the stops,” Gilbert said, shaking his head slowly. The next day, Gilbert found himself in a room with a guy he’d never met, a recovering addict named Keith Urban.
So he told his rehab counselors and his manager he was leaving, even if it was against medical advice. “I had just been able to get out of bed and get to a shower without having to crawl,” he said. Gilbert felt better, or at least less crappy, after a few days at the treatment center. Doctors and a painful hospital stay told him that, but Gilbert wanted to leave Cumberland Heights. The emerging country star knew he probably would die if he didn’t stop drinking and taking pills.
View Gallery: Photos: Brantley Gilbert through the yearsĪ few days into rehab, Brantley Gilbert was ready to bolt.
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