Alec Baldwin Opens Up About 39 Years of Sobriety

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May 1, 2024 – In an interview for Wednesday’s episode of the Our Way With Paul Anka and Skip Bronson podcast, the 66-year-old actor looked back on his struggle with alcoholism and substance abuse, which he previously addressed in his 2017 memoir, Nevertheless. “I discuss it every now and then when it makes sense. I’m 39 years sober. I got sober Feb. 23, 1985.”

The Rust star says that his “problem” began when he moved from New York City to Los Angeles in 1983. “I had a white-hot problem every day for two years. I think I snorted a line of cocaine from here to Saturn,” he quips, “…did one on the rings of Saturn, then we came home — we took it back home. I mean, cocaine was like coffee back then. Everybody was doing it all day long.” But Baldwin admits that when he stopped his drug use, it led to dependency on alcohol, explaining, “because I stopped doing drugs, my drinking increased, which they tell you is going to happen. And that did happen. I just started drinking.”

“I don’t miss drugs at all, but I do miss drinking,” he confesses. “I like to drink.”

In Nevertheless, Baldwin wrote that he became sober after he overdosedon drugs and hit rock bottom.