The Tom Arnold Story You’ve Never Heard Before (Addiction, Relapse, Getting Sober)

Tom Arnold gets brutally honest in one of the wildest, funniest, and most heartbreaking conversations ever recorded on Soberness.

From nearly dying on the PCH  to relapsing on medical fentanyl, battling benzos, enduring organ failure, losing loved ones to suicide, surviving four marriages, and navigating fame, fatherhood, and addiction — Tom tells the truth with zero filter and a ton of heart ❤️.

In this episode, Tom reveals:

💥 The motorcycle crash that triggered a secret year-long dependence on pain meds

💥 The terrifying reality of benzos — and how they contributed to Chris Cornell’s death

💥 The suicide of his nephew and why access to guns matters

💥 His darkest fantasies about drinking again — and the moments he thought he had permission

💥 The brutal truth about getting sober for real (and why he hated every minute of it)

💥 Multiple relapses, jail day-ones, and the shame spiral of starting over

💥 His 4 marriages, including what really happened with Roseanne and how he got fired from his fiancée’s show

💥 Why fame is both the best and worst thing for an addict

💥 What keeps him sober now — and why he knows he can’t go back

💥 Hilarious Hollywood stories, dating disasters, Sharon Stone on Bumble, and more

This episode is chaotic, profound, painful, and absolutely hysterical — and it’s full of life-saving truth.

If you’ve ever battled addiction, lost someone, rebuilt yourself, or just want to hear a legendary storyteller at his rawest… this is an unmissable conversation.

 

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ABOUT SOBERNESS: 

Soberness—the concept—is freedom from f**kery: 

The f**kery of addiction. 

The self-inflicted f**kery. 

And the f**kery that shows up uninvited. 

 

Soberness—the podcast—is where celebrity raconteurs spill what broke them, what saved them, and what still f**ks with them today. 

 

From Talk Stoop creator and host Cat Greenleaf, Soberness is recorded at the Algonquin Hotel’s iconic Round Table in Midtown Manhattan. 

 

Once home to Dorothy Parker and her Vicious Circle of drunken critics and wits, the Gonk is a legendary hotbed of brilliance and bad behavior. A f**kery free-for-all. 

 

In other words, it's a perfect fit.

 

ABOUT CAT GREENLEAF:

 Cat created and hosted NBC’s long-running series Talk Stoop—the celebrity interview show filmed on her Brooklyn front steps. Yep, the one with the bulldog that dominated NYC TaxiTV and USA Daytime in the 20teens. Over nine years, she hosted hundreds of guests, racked up four Emmys, launched countless adventures—and had so much fun.

 

Then she got fired. No fun.

 

After losing her job, she thought she’d never to go back to journalism. With no other marketable skills and no idea what to do next, she entered an epic dark night of the soul. 

 

Looking for light, her family moved to the beach in Coney Island. There, Cat got serious about her own sobriety and began bringing recovery meetings to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and men. That work inspired her to found the nonprofit Restorative Housing Organization. RHO is dedicated to training formerly incarcerated men and women to renovate undervalued NYC waterfront properties, which are then rented to Section 8 tenants. She loves it. But once a journalist, always a journalist.

 

So when she weirdly got name-checked on Hacks last season, she took it as a sign.
Soon after, she heard her old friend, musician Steve Earle, talking openly about his sobriety on a radio show —a thing she didn’t know people were even allowed to do. And she realized she wanted to be the one talking to Steve Earle about sobriety on a show! Soberness was born in September 2024.

 

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