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Josh Brolinis five years sober!
TheAvengers: Infinity Waractor, 50,posted on Instagramon Tuesday to celebrate the anniversary, writing a lengthy message on an old drunk photo of himself with two friends.
Brolin continued: “And you can’t remember anything you did so you roll out of bed over last night’s urine and you dial your best friend’s phone number because you recall him lifting you over his head, your whole self, before you hit and broke through the drywall and, you think, a large aquarium and the phone on the other end rings and he picks it up, that clambering for a phone, the clumsiness of a hardline, and you say: “What did I do last night?!” and he answers, after a great pause: “…Dude…”. #5years.”
The actorentered rehabfor substance abusein 2013after after several public altercations in which he appeared to be intoxicated. In the same year, he split from his ex-wife, actressDiane Lane, in February after eight years of marriage.
During an interview withThe Guardianat the time, the Oscar nominee admitted that it was a “turning point.”
“It made me think of a lot of things. My mom dying when I was in my 20s. All the impact that had on me that I hadn’t moved past; I was always such a momma’s boy,” he says. “But I realized that I was on a destructive path. I knew that I had to change and mature. It was like I stepped back and saw the hamster wheel.”
In November, Brolin and his wife, entrepreneur Kathryn Boyd,welcomed their first child together, a daughter named Westlyn Reign Brolin.
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Brolin has two other children —Eden, 24, and Trevor, 30 — from his first marriage to actress Alice Adair.
source: people.com
