Keeping it real.

Former Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky Manno is opening up about her relationship with alcohol in a new, vulnerable post.

The mom took to Instagram and shared a photo with her husband Kevin and wrote, “Ok here it is. My story on how I changed my relationship with alcohol. I’ve been nervous about this post only because I know it’s important. And I’ve written and rewritten and then deleted multiple captions so I’ve decided to scrap them all and instead just start with the first paragraph of my blog post today.”

And in her first few paragraphs, Ali shared why she’s decided to make this change in her life.

She wrote, “It’s hard for me to even begin to write this blog post because I remember thinking about writing it over a year ago, but truly not knowing if I would ever get to the point where I could. I say that because I’ve always loved to drink! I never really thought I could give up my nightly glass of wine. I didn’t want to enough. We all know the saying ‘it’s 5 o’clock somewhere.’”

She went on, adding, “Well for me, it was 7 o’clock somewhere cause I would usually wait until we put the kids to bed to open a bottle of wine and cozy up on the couch with my husband to watch our nightly show. And I loved this routine so much, that even though I contemplated (multiple times) whether or not I was drinking too much, I wasn’t willing to give up this routine in order to cut back.”

In her blog, Ali details how she started drinking at a young age and how during the pandemic she started drinking more than usual.

She wrote, “I wasn’t doing anything crazy. I still felt in complete control early on in the pandemic. I think it was about a year in when I started realizing that it was a little much, so I would not drink for a couple nights just to prove to myself I could and because if I could make it those couple nights, in my mind it justified that I didn’t have any sort of alcoholism.”

Ali continued on, sharing, “I still wouldn’t call my relationship with alcohol ‘alcoholism’ because I could stop when I needed to. I think this was about changing my relationship with alcohol as the norm instead of the outlier.”

Eventually Ali became sober curious and opened up about how full spectrum CBD helped her calm down in the same way alcohol did without all the negative side effects of drinking.

Now, Ali said she still drinks, but for example in January, she only had drinks on four days of the entire month.

She concluded her Instagram post writing, “I hope you read it. I hope it’s helpful. I hope it helps you reevaluate your own relationship with alcohol. I still enjoy a nice cocktail here and there, but oh my goodness does it feel good to be in complete control of that relationship. Love you guys! And thank you to my husband @kevinmanno for going on this journey with me!”