Danny Trejo celebrates 55 years of sobriety, offers words of wisdom for anyone ‘struggling,’: ‘YOU CAN TOO!’

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wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter on Wednesday. “I’ve done this one day at a time, and for anyone out there struggling YOU CAN TOO.”Along with the celebration and words of encouragement, the “Machete” star shared a photo of himself, arms wide open in an LA Rams jean jacket and hat, with a joyous smile.Trejo told Fox News in July 2021 that he realized he “had to” get clean during his stints in and out of jail in his youth.“I had to get clean,” Trejo recalled. “I wouldn’t have gotten to this point in my life if I didn’t take that step.

I would have just stayed the same person.”I’m 55 years clean and sober today by the grace of God! I’ve done this one day at a time, and for anyone out there struggling YOU CAN TOO!

pic.twitter.com/iQvYKW2VkRIn his 2021 memoir, co-authored by fellow actor Donal Logue, titled “Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood,” the actor detailed his battle with staying sober after growing up in an abusive household in Los Angeles, leading him to fall into a life of crime in his younger years before finding God and acting, the “Machete” actor told the outlet during the interview upon the book’s release.The reformed felon turned fan-favorite on the silver screen shared that by the time he was 8 years old, he had already started smoking marijuana — and by 12, was drinking.As a teenager, Trejo became addicted to heroin before he found himself locked up in some of America’s most violent penitentiaries, including the notoriously dangerous San Quentin State Prison, located about 25 miles North of San Francisco, in the late 1960s.During a prison riot while incarcerated at Soledad Prison in California in 1968, the actor was isolated in solitary confinement after he hit a guard in the.