Hunter Biden departed a House Oversight Committee meeting on Capitol Hill on Jan. 10, 2024, meant to consider citing him for Contempt of Congress. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
Hunter Biden said he feels obligated to "make it through that fight clean and sober, and I feel a responsibility to everyone struggling through their own recovery to succeed."
"I don't care whether you're 10 years sober, two years sober, two months sober or 200 years sober — your brain at some level is always telling you there's still one answer," he said.
The president's son also gave advice to others struggling to stay sober.
"Embrace the state in which you came into recovery — which is that feeling of hopelessness which forces you into a choice," he said. "And then understand that what is required is that you basically have to change everything."
Hunter Biden smiles while departing a House Oversight Committee meeting at Capitol Hill on Jan. 10, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
Last July, Hunter Biden swore in a federal court hearing that he had been sober since June 1, 2019.
At a hearing in September, U.S. Magistrate Judge Christopher Burke said Hunter Biden had tested negative for drugs and alcohol since August, and the president's son's legal team told Axios he has continued to test negative since then.
A baggie of cocaine was found at the White House in a storage locker last July, but the Secret Service closed their investigation without identifying a suspect.
In his memoir, Hunter Biden wrote about how he was still in the throes of his addiction weeks after a family intervention at their home in Delaware when his father, Joe Biden, announced his presidential candidacy in April 2019. Hunter fled to California, where he met and soon married Melissa Cohen, a documentary filmmaker.
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He considered their wedding his initial sobriety date – May 17, 2019, the day before Joe Biden officially launched his campaign in Philadelphia, according to Axios.
Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.
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