Al Gore on step nine?

Last week, when asked if his new network was going to have a political bias, Al Gore said the following:

"I consider myself a recovering politician. I'm on step nine,"

I've never been on a 12 step program, so I looked one up to see what step nine was. This is step nine:

Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

So, when is Al going to apologize to all of us for that politician-in-depression beard?