Although he’d stopped drinking, Westerberg had not dealt with his alcoholism or depression issues. Back on the road, he was white-knuckling his way through his promotional obligations, through concerts, through his life. “He’s not drinking. He’s trying to behave in a new relationship. And at the end of the day he was all alone,” said Hobbib. “There was no Tommy anymore. He didn’t have Tommy to bounce his discontent off of. Now it’s all on him, and it started to eat him up.”
