One day back in 2004, Ty Herndon found himself face down on a floor, crying and praying for guidance, in what he confesses was the rock bottom point of his drug addiction.

"I just had a little talk with God, laying there on my face because I didn't even feel worthy to talk to God at that point," Ty tells Country Weekly. "I felt the hand of God touch my head and gave me just enough strength to know that I needed to get on that plane [back to Nashville]."

That day had been a long time coming.

"I've really never told this before, but when I recorded the majority of 'What Mattered Most,' I was not sober," Ty says of his 1995 debut album. "That should have been the most bright and shining time in my life, but everything I'd worked my whole life for was crumbling all around me."

Ty's album 'Journey On,' which was released in June, is something of a musical account of the last decade of his life and his struggle with methamphetamine addiction. He co-wrote 11 of the tracks on the album because "I needed to talk about the last 10 years of my life. I needed to write this record," he says. "There was so much I wanted to say to fit where I find myself spiritually and emotionally, and I wanted to sing about that ... I am very, very proud of this record."

More of Ty's story can be found in the August 16 issue of Country Weekly, available now.

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