Ryan Sheckler
I’m Nearly 6 Years Sober
… And Skating Better Than Ever!!!
Published October 12, 2025 12:25 AM PDT
TMZSports.com
Ryan Sheckler is getting ready to celebrate a big milestone — six years of sobriety — and he tells TMZ Sports things have gotten so much better for him since he swore off booze.
The skateboarding legend gave us a life update while at LAX this week … and he raved about the sober lifestyle.
He said it’s helped him in all areas — including on his board.
“I’m headed to Paris right now to go skate,” he told us. “I thought I was done competing. And I’m skating better than ever right now.”
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Sheckler — who’s now a husband and a father of two — explained he decided to ditch alcohol back on March 30, 2020 … after he says it was affecting his loved ones.
“I wasn’t just hurting myself,” he told us. “I was hurting the people around me. I think once I took a grasp to, like, I’m hurting people that really care about me, I couldn’t deal with it anymore.”
Sheckler went on to say, “there’s nothing better” than the way he’s currently operating.
The 35-year-old also chatted with us about one of the new projects he’s working on — a movie titled “Dream.”
Ryan plays a cop in the flick … and check out our interview, it’s a role he says he’s now very comfortable in.