Fatboy Slim on overcoming alcoholism: 'Probably the hardest thing I've ever done'

Cook's addiction threatened his marriage and career, requiring intensive rehab intervention to prevent deterioration of his personal and professional life.

Norman Cook, the artist behind Fatboy Slim's era-defining sound, has spoken with rare candor about the slow erosion that alcoholism brought to his life — and the quiet ultimatum from his wife that finally broke through where louder warnings had failed. Fifteen years sober after a 2009 rehabilitation, he describes addiction not as a personal failing but as a parasite with its own will to survive, one that clings tightest precisely when you try to let go. His account, offered on Desert Island Discs, is less a cautionary tale than a meditation on what it costs to reclaim a life — and what it feel

Fatboy Slim on overcoming alcoholism: 'Probably the hardest thing I've ever done'

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