Lucy Hale is marking a serious milestone.

The actress, recognized for her roles in TV's Pretty Little Liars and Life Sentence, in addition to the 2011 film Scream 4, famous Thursday on social media that she's been sober for 3 years.

"Rattling," she started within the publish. "3 years in the past at present, I started my journey in remembering who I’m. Since then, I’ve skilled moments that may solely be described as pure miracles and magic. I’m deeply grateful daily — for the individuals who have been guiding lights, for an influence higher than myself that loves me unconditionally, and for my very own perseverance in not giving up. To all of you who’ve supported my journey, I’ve felt your love and it means all the things to me."

Hale's PLL costar Janel Parrish was one among many individuals congratulating her within the feedback. "You're completely superb," she wrote.

Demi Lovato, who's spoken about her personal struggles with dependancy, wrote, "so pleased with you."

Hale, 35, didn't count on to "be the poster youngster of sobriety," she instructed PEOPLE in September. "However after I started talking about it, it got here from a spot of needing to heal and take my energy again."

The actress mentioned she has to stay diligent about her determination to surrender alcohol.

"I nonetheless need to make the selection daily like, 'Okay, at present I'm staying sober and at present I'm selecting me,' however that goes deeper than simply not consuming," Hale mentioned. "My life feels so good now that I wouldn't give that up for something."

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That wasn't the case in January 2022, when she hit what she calls "all-time low." It gave her new motivation.

"I at all times had a need to vary, however with any type of dependancy, you turn out to be powerless to this obsession," she instructed the journal. "I positively needed to undergo my very own technique of getting sober. It took many, many, a few years, many relapses, many darkish moments, many falling on my face fairly actually, however figuratively as nicely to determine what was working in my life, discovering out why I used to be consuming, as a result of eradicating alcohol is only one a part of it."

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Hale credited the collection, which aired for seven seasons between 2010 and 2017, with conserving her engaged in life.

"If I'm completely trustworthy," she mentioned, "with out my profession and with out that inventive outlet, I don't know if I might've made it. I believe that present and my love of what I do was my North Star really, it actually gave me objective, and nonetheless offers me objective. However I used to be continually on this cycle of utmost despair and nervousness whereas having to point out as much as work and be on. And that 'being on' fueled much more consuming… I used to be caught on this cycle that I couldn't get out of."

Hale's newest undertaking is the film F Marry Kill, which got here out final month. Within the film, she performs a true-crime junkie who finds herself in the midst of a homicide case.

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