Overview
- The singer tells Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that his experience does not match clichés of visible decline or morning tremors.
- He says he has spent about four of nearly nine professional years sober, describing work‑focused phases of abstinence.
- Zucker characterizes his past pattern as an up‑and‑down cycle that included periods of higher consumption and what he calls habitual drinking.
- He criticizes social expectations to explain not drinking and notes gendered assumptions such as men being presumed to have lost their license and women being presumed pregnant.
- The remarks follow his summer 2025 disclosure of alcohol dependence and were circulated nationally after the regional interview via the dpa newswire.