Tom Holland reveals he was “definitely addicted to alcohol”
nme.comwho recently announced a year-long break after filming “difficult” TV series The Crowded Room, said in a new interview that questioned why he was “enslaved” to drinking.He told the On Purpose With Jay Shetty podcast that his journey to sobriety began with “a very, very boozy” Christmas last year.The star decided to do Dry January earlier this year but was “scared” to learn that “all I could think about was having a drink”. “I just was like, ‘Wow, maybe I have a little bit of an alcohol thing,” he said.What followed was an extension of Dry January for another month until the end of February, which in turn led to him challenging himself to go without booze for six months in total.He opened up about the pros and cons of the move, though ultimately feels the pros outweigh them.“I felt like I couldn’t be social,” Holland said of his relationships without alcohol. “I felt like I couldn’t go to the pub and have a lime soda.
I couldn’t go out for dinner. I was really, really struggling.“I just sort of said to myself, like, ‘Why? Why am I enslaved to this drink?
Why am I so obsessed by the idea of having this drink?'”He made the six-month sobriety plan to change his mindset and achieved the goal on his 27th birthday on June 1.
By that time, he said, he was “the happiest I’ve ever been in my life”.“I could sleep better. I could handle problems better,” he said of that period without booze. “Things that would go wrong on set, that would normally set me off, I could take in my stride.
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