Tom Holland Reveals He Has Been Sober for More Than 1 Year: I’m Getting Better at ‘Recognizing Triggers’

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Opening up. Tom Holland revealed that he has been sober for one year and four months.The Spider-Man star, 26, shared the personal milestone during a Tuesday, May 9, interview with Entertainment Weekly while promoting his upcoming Apple TV+ series, The Crowded Room.

Holland told the outlet that working on the show — in which he plays an antisocial young man arrested after a shooting — prompted him to reexamine his own mental health.“Learning about mental health and the power of it, and speaking to psychiatrists about [the characters] Danny and Billy’s struggles, has been something that has been so informative to my own life,” he said, noting that he’d become better at “recognizing triggers” and stressors, such as social media.Although the project positively impacted his mental well-being in some ways, the Uncharted actor added that the heavy subject matter weighed on him at times.In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies“I’m no stranger to the physical aspects of the job doing the whole action-movie thing.

But the mental aspect, it really beat me up and it took a long time for me to recover afterwards, to sort of get back to reality,” he admitted.Holland recalled one moment when he felt a need to distance himself from his character after nine months of filming.“I was seeing myself in him, but in my personal life,” he explained. “I remember having a bit of a meltdown at home and thinking, like, ‘I’m going to shave my head.

I need to shave my head because I need to get rid of this character.’ And, obviously, we were mid-shooting, so I decided not to. … It was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before.”Although the U.K.