Josh Brolin’s Moment That Sparked Sobriety

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Sept. 11, 2024 – The No Country For Old Men actor has been open about his sobriety over the years and previously revealed on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast that he first went sober when he was 19—but it wasn’t long until he started drinking again … Brolin discussed the moment that resulted in him giving up alcohol once and for all.

There was, um, I woke up on the sidewalk, I didn’t know where my car was and it wasn’t that that was rare, that was just, you know, the 400th time that it happened, it was so normal when I woke up. But my grandmother—I was supposed to be at my, my grandmother was on her deathbed.”

Brolin said he was supposed to pick up his brother and take him to the hospital so they could visit their grandmother.

“I was the one in the family that put everything together and structured everything and controlled everything. Anyway, I woke up on the sidewalk, went inside, my brother called me, ‘Where are you?’” he recounted.