Legendary singer Johnny Mathis owes a debt of gratitude to former First Lady Nancy Reagan.
The 81-year-old crooner credited Reagan with helping him kick his drinking habit after she saw him overindulging at a reception.
“We were sitting around, you know. I was drinking, and she suggested I might have a problem,” Mathis said in an upcoming interview with “CBS This Morning’s” Nancy Giles.
“I said, ‘Probably not, but what do you have in mind?’ And so she sent me to a place called Havre de Grace in Maryland, and I was there with a bunch of Jesuit priests. I had three weeks of finding out why I drank, how I could stop.”
