Bradley Cooper has dealt with serious issues in his life, one being a struggle with drug and alcohol addiction in his 20’s. Luckily, he got sober almost a decade ago before things took a turn for the worst.
He opens up about his battle in the January 2014 issue of GQ,“If I continued it, I was really going to sabotage my whole life.” He continued,””I think work was getting f—ed up. The one thing that I’ve learned in life is the best thing I can do is embrace who I am and then do that to the fullest extent, and then whatever happens, happens. The more steps I do to not do that, the farther I am away from fulfilling any potential I would have . . .Yes, of course it hindered the work.”
But he came to a startling realization in order to overcome his demons,”I was doing these movies, and I got to meet Sandra Bullock and meet these people and work with them,” he says. “And I’m sober, and I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m actually myself. And I don’t have to put on this air to be somebody else, and this person still wants to work with me? Oh, what the f— is that about?’ I was rediscovering myself in this workplace, and it was wonderful.” Good for you, B Coops! What do you think about him getting sober?
