‘Married… With Children’ Star Katey Sagal Celebrates 40 Years Of Sobriety At 72

Katey Sagal has reached a deeply personal milestone. The 72-year-old actress, forever remembered by many television fans as Peg Bundy on Married… with Children, recently celebrated 40 years of continuous sobriety surrounded by the people closest to her.

According to People, Sagal marked the occasion with a garden party on August 22, attended by her husband, Kurt Sutter, and her three children, Sarah Grace White, Jackson White, and Esme Sutter. The following day, she shared photos from the celebration, including one of herself standing beside a table filled with flowers, treats, and a large cake.

The One And Only Peg Bundy, Katey Sagal Marks 40 Years Sober

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sagal has been sober since 1986, but she has never hidden how difficult the road to that milestone became. In a 2025 appearance on Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler’s MeSsy podcast, she explained that she began using drugs and alcohol when she was only 15.

The actress said she spent years using substances to avoid painful emotions, including losing her parents and facing cancer in her 20s. Sobriety forced her to confront those feelings and, she said, required courage and support. In her anniversary post, Sagal thanked her husband, friends, and three children, calling the milestone a reminder of how wonderful life can be.

Her Journey Has Also Inspired Her Son

For viewers who knew Sagal as the sharp-tongued Peg Bundy, her real-life story reveals a more vulnerable side. After Married… with Children, she built another strong chapter with Futurama and Sons of Anarchy. Her sobriety also influenced her son Jackson White, who has said watching his mother recover showed him that change was possible.

Sagal has described community as the opposite of addiction, making the family gathering around her 40th anniversary especially meaningful. Rather than celebrating the milestone alone, she surrounded herself with people who have shared her life and witnessed the long journey behind it. For fans who have followed Sagal since her days walking into the Bundy living room in towering hair and colorful outfits, the anniversary offers a different reason to celebrate her. Four decades after choosing sobriety, she is still acting, still surrounded by family and, by her own account, deeply grateful for the life she has built.