Ashley McBryde performed three new songs, including “Bottle Tells Me So,” on CBS Saturday Morning. The song is a part of McBryde’s latest Wild album, out now.

“Bottle Tells Me So” is written by McBryde, along with Terri Jo Box and Shelly Fairchild. It is McBryde’s honest look at her struggle with alcoholism, before getting sober.

“Bottle Tells Me So” says in part, “From the taste of things, it must have been Marlboro Reds / From the shape I’m in, I must have barely made it to the bed / That wasn’t a good time poured over ice and sip it slow / For the bottle tells me so  If I can find my phone, I bet I need to apologize / The only problem is I can’t remember to who or why / And whatever day it is, it’s gonna be a long one, I know / For the bottle tells me so / One of us is gonna break one of these days / If this ain’t bottom, it’s as far down as I ever wanna go /  The party’s over and as always, I’m the last one to know / For the bottle tells me so.”

What Ashley McBryde Says About Her Alcoholism

McBryde got sober in 2022, waiting almost a year before revealing she had quit drinking. She recently opened up about the heartbreaking moment that led her to rehab.

“I woke up at another artist’s house, another female artist — and if I told you who, you would not be shocked, of course,” McBryde recalls on Bobby Bones’ BobbyCast podcast. “And I woke up in a bed that’s not mine, in pajamas that aren’t mine. And I was like, ‘Oh my God, that must have been a doozy.’ I’m thirsty. I don’t know where I am, and I don’t know where water is, so I’ll just go find water.”

“And when I went to find water, I found a living room. In that living room was my team,” she adds. McBryde shares that it was her close friend, hair and make-up artist Dayna Anne Slaughenhoupt, her manager, John Peets, and her day-to-day manager, along with the artist whose house she had just woken up in, who all confronted her in the living room.

“I said, ‘Okay. I don’t know where my boots are, but I need my boots,’” McBryde remembers. “They said, ‘We need you to stop.’ And I said, ‘I need me to stop, too.’ And that was when I found out that [the artist] took me to her house that night, after we’d been out, to make sure I didn’t die. But I didn’t.”

What Ashley McBryde Says About Being in Rehab

Four years after McBryde quit drinking, she has no doubt that being in rehab is what saved her life.

“When it went off the rails, it went off the rails in a big way,” McBryde acknowledges. “And as I’ve had to say over the past three years, I’m a drunk.”

By her own admission, she did not appear to be much of a drinker to a lot of people, although she says that is likely because she was already drunk when they were together.

“I am sorry,” McBryde says.

Her time in rehab was not easy. But now, the Arkansas native is full of gratitude that she went to rehab, did the hard work, and committed to sobriety.

“I kept being like, ‘I can’t do this. I don’t know where I am. Oh my God, I have to do this. … There’s no way I’m doing this for 30 days. That’s insane,’” McBryde says. “‘I don’t live under a bridge. I didn’t hurt anybody.’ And now I can hear my other self going, ‘Oh, kid. Sit down and shut up, and put your seatbelt on.’”