It was arduous, but he finally did it. And, as he himself has stated, he has not looked back since. And he has no regrets at all, since now he lives much more peacefully. It is about Josh Brolinthat He has opened up about his alcoholic past.
The interpreter of It’s not a country for old people just published his memoirs, titled From Under the Truck (“From the bottom of a truck”, in Spanish), and in them he explains the reasons why that way of life, although he thought it was in his nature, was no longer essential for him.
In an excerpt from the book, which went on sale this past weekend, published by the newspaper The Timesthe 56-year-old performer wrote: “I was born to drink. My mother drank exactly the way I did. And that’s why I was raised to be a man and drink as if he were the male equivalent of my mother.”
The actor who played Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Gurney Halleck in the latest adaptation of Dunehas detailed that he gave up alcohol forever a little over a decade ago, in 2013, when, After a drunken night, he went to visit his dying grandmother, 99 years old, on his deathbed.
Brolin explains that, realizing how little life he had left if he continued at his drinking rate, he decided he had to live life differently moving forward. ““I knew that was the last time I had drunk,” has remembered.
“I like getting older,” he continued, “because it’s like a great excuse to finally say, ‘Okay, relax, you don’t need to be bumping around all the time anymore.'” In fact, he added, he “loves being sober.” “Now I have a better time. There is nothing I have experienced since then that I “I’m not absolutely sure that it would have been worse if I continued drinking,” has sentenced.
But, in addition, there is someone to whom he owes a lot for having overcome his alcoholism: his wife, Kathryn Boyd, whom he thanks for being by her side both in her “most difficult moment” and in her “greatest joys,” referring to the births of Westlyn Reign, 6, and Chapel Grace, 3 — although she also had Trevor, 36 , and Eden, 30, with his ex-wife, Alice Adair.