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The Addict Who Won The Bachelorette: Zac Clark On Getting Sober & Staying That Way
Aug 6, 2026 · 2 hr 23 min · 19 segments
Zac Clark is the founder of Release Recovery, a recovery advocate, and the winner of The Bachelorette.
This conversation gets into the reality of addiction and why, for Zac, recovery is less about…
Zac Clark is the founder of Release Recovery, a recovery advocate, and the winner of The Bachelorette.
This conversation gets into the reality of addiction and why, for Zac, recovery is less about willpower than community. We cover willingness, emotional sobriety, how families get pulled under, the stranger who saved his life, and what running gives him.
He also shares how he conned a surgeon into taking out his gallbladder to feed his opioid addiction.
The Bachelorette made him famous. This is the unvarnished story. Enjoy!
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Zac Clark is the founder of Release Recovery, a recovery advocate, and the winner of The Bachelorette.
This conversation gets into the reality of addiction and why, for Zac, recovery is less about…