Macklemore says his 7-year-old daughter attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings with him because he wants to be transparent about his sobriety

• Macklemore appeared on Audacy's "Check In" podcast Friday. 
• He said he takes his 7-year-old daughter, Sloane, to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. 
• "I don't want to hide that," Macklemore said of his sobriety. 

Macklemore said he takes his 7-year-old daughter, Sloane, to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. 

The "Good Old Days" rapper discussed his sobriety and his efforts to be transparent with his eldest daughter during an interview published Friday on Audacy's "Check In" podcast. Macklemore, real name Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, has three children with his wife Tricia Davis: Sloane, his daughter Colette, 4, and son Hugo, 1. 

"Sloane's been to meetings with me. She asks me questions like, 'Daddy, how's your sober meetings going?' We talk about it, and I don't want to hide that because it's not something that I need to feel guilt or shame or secrecy around," Macklemore said. "The whole intention is to put it out into the open. Like I'm not a finished products, this is what I'm working on, these are my struggles."

Macklemore added that he felt it was important to have honest conversations with his daughter. 

"These are things we might have in our family that we have to keep an eye on. Just be honest. It's a conversation. There's no rulebook here," he continued. "We're at a new point in parenting ... I think that having that conversation early on is important." 

Macklemore has discussed addiction and sobriety during his career, including in a July 2015 Complex interview. He told the outlet that he relapsed in 2014 due to the stress of his skyrocketing fame.

"I'm rolling around like a 15-year-old trying not to get caught smoking weed in my car," he said. "Straight up, driving all around here, like I was 15 years ago. Same shit. I felt so dumb. I felt like I'm just wasting time. What am I escaping here?"

Macklemore added that he decided to get sober again when his wife became pregnant with their first child.

However, Macklemore told Dax Shepard during an April 2021 "Armchair Expert" podcast episode that he relapsed in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. Macklemore shared that hearing Shepard discuss his own relapse during one episode made him cry. 

"It was within two months of my COVID relapse, and the disease of addiction is crazy," Macklemore said. "It made me feel, as someone that had relapsed again, like a month or two before, that I'm not alone."