1 week Ago By Lillie Rohan
In recent years, there has been a growing number of celebrities speaking out about their journey to sobriety and why they chose to give up the booze entirely. Anne Hathaway’s sobriety journey is the most recent to make headlines . The mum of two revealed she hadn’t had a drink in five years, during a recent interview with the New York Times.
“I don’t normally talk about it, but I am over five years sober,” she said, confirming she quit drinking in 2019. “That feels like a milestone to me.” She isn’t the only A-lister to embrace the alcohol-free life; here are 7 stars who have spoken out about their sobriety: Sir Elton John It’s no secret that the much-loved piano man once battled with the dark side of fame.
In the early years of his stardom, John fell into a constant cycle of drug and alcohol abuse, confessing that much of the 1970s and 1980s he experienced life through a “drug-fueled haze”. However, in 1990, after witnessing the devastating effects of the AIDS epidemic, he decided to get clean. He told The Fix in 2017: “Within six months I became sober, and clean, and have been for the last 27 years”.
The Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT) award winner has remained open about his decision to say goodbye to the substances once and for all. In 2020, while celebrating his 30 year anniversary of sobriety, he told fans in a social media post: “If I hadn’t finally taken the big step of asking for help 30 years ago, I’d be dead. Thank you from the .
