Tom Holland Gets Candid On His Sobriety Journey & Details What Giving Up Alcohol Did For Him: 'I Couldn't Stop Thinking About It'

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Tom Holland is opening up in more detail about his path to getting sober, during a new interview on Jay Shetty‘s podcast.

The 27-year-old actor revealed just a few months ago that he was going on one year of sobriety, after wrapping up filming on his most recent project, Apple TV+’s The Crowded Room. Keep reading to find out more… Speaking with Jay, Tom shared that he never realized that he had a problem with alcohol until he couldn’t stop thinking about drinking. “I didn’t one day wake up and say I’m giving up drinking,” he shared, saying that like “many Brits had, had a very, very boozy December, Christmas time I was on vacation, I was drinking a lot, and I’ve always been able to drink a lot…I decided to just give up for January.” Tom fully committed to a dry January, and it’s then when he figured out that there was a dependence on drinking he didn’t know he had. “All I could think about was having a drink.

That’s all I could think about,” he said. “I was waking up thinking about it. I was checking the clock, when’s at 12pm? And it just really scared me.

I just was like, wow. Maybe. Maybe I have a little bit of an alcohol thing. So I sort of decided to punish myself and say, I’ll do February as well.