Daisy Enters Rehab and Begins Her Sobriety

Daisy Jones’s departure from Chicago became the turning point from which she dates her sobriety and the life she built afterward. She flew out immediately, went straight to Simone, and entered rehab with her help; Daisy later identified July 17, 1979, as the beginning of her sustained sobriety.

Departure from Chicago

Daisy recalls being on the next flight out of Chicago. The following morning, Rod found that she was gone and had left a note saying she had left the band and would never return. Her exit was therefore both a physical departure and a severing of her place in the group. In a later account, Nick Harris observes that Daisy Jones & The Six never played or appeared together again after their show at Chicago Stadium.

Rehab and the Start of Sobriety

After leaving Chicago, Daisy made her way straight to Simone and told her everything. Simone got Daisy into rehab, making her friend the immediate source of practical help at a moment when Daisy was seeking treatment. Daisy marks July 17, 1979, as the date she has been sober since. Her account gives the decision a clear point of reference: leaving Chicago led not simply to a break from the band, but to entering a facility and beginning a lasting change.

A Life Made Possible by Getting Clean

Daisy connects her later life directly to that decision. After leaving the facility, she changed her life; she says that leaving the music business, publishing her books, meditating, traveling the world, adopting her sons, and opening the Wild Flower Initiative were all possible because she got clean. These are distinct parts of the future she attributes to sobriety, not achievements she presents as separate from recovery. She describes the decision as having consequences she could not have imagined in 1979.

Significance

The event reverses the direction of Daisy’s story: the flight away from the band does not lead back to the music career, but toward treatment and a life beyond it. Her retrospective account gives the departure a lasting measure—sobriety since a specific date—and frames recovery as the condition that allowed later choices and work to become possible.