Josh Peck’s Book Details His Struggles With Weight, Years-Long Addiction and More

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Josh Peck might be best known for his work on sitcom Drake & Josh, but the former Nickelodeon star shares much more than behind-the-scenes secrets in his new memoir.The How I Met Your Father actor, 35, wrote about everything from performing stand-up around New York City as an 8-year-old to his lifelong struggles with food and substance addictions in his book, Happy People Are Annoying.“I felt like my life was at this inflection point,” Peck told Forbes about the decision to write a memoir in March 2002. “I had spent over twenty years working at this profession that I thought defined me.

I started when I was 10, so I literally thought it was my identity. I had never been anything other than a working actor.”He continued: “But over those twenty years, I also lost 100 pounds, got sober from drugs and alcohol, started a whole new career in social media when showbiz had stalled out on me.

I got married, had a child and faced the way I viewed happiness.”Happy People Are Annoying is the first time the Wackness star has opened up about his addictions in a serious way.Peck got sober in 2008 and has continued to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and work with his sponsors in the years since. “As I write this, I’m two weeks short of thirteen years sober, and hopefully by the time this book comes out, I still will be,” the Snow Day star wrote in his book. “I don’t speak in absolutes because I’ve known too many people whose life got too good too quickly and suddenly a drink didn’t sound that bad anymore.

So, in sticking with the whole one day at a time of it all, I cannot guarantee that I will die sober, but I can guarantee that I will go to sleep tonight without a drink.”“I’ll tell you that today I still go to meetings regularly,