“I went straight to my wife and said, ‘This is where I’m at.’

She just grabbed me and hugged me and changed my life.”

McGraw has been open and transparent about Hill’s influence on him going sober before.

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill smiling

“When your wife tells you it’s gone too far, that’s a big wake-up call.

That, and realizing you’re gonna lose everything you have.

Not monetarily, not career-wise, but family-wise,” he said (from Tennessean).

Faith Hill Time McGraw posing

So I quit."

He joked about one of the side benefits from giving up alcohol to his relationship with Faith Hill.

“I am probably less embarrassing to her now!”

They even have their ownprivate islandin the Bahamas!