Celebrity Sobriety

Robert Downey Jr. and Late Dad Get Candid

FROM LESS THAN ZERO TO MORE THAN A MILLION –

Dec. 7, 2022 – He recalled becoming addicted around the time he made the 1987 film Less Than Zero. “It was just a wild era,” said Downey Jr. “That whole world, it gets tied into creativity. We were all altering our consciousness with substances. I was just kinda playing a game of just wanting to self-soothe or just stay loaded rather than deal with the fact that things had gone off the tracks a little bit.”

“Honestly, more than anything, I look back and go, ‘It’s shocking that a single movie came out finished,’” he added, later referencing the “drug-culture life that we all got stuck in.”

In an archive interview featured in the doc, Downey Sr. says while Downey Jr. is next to him: “A lot of us did things and thought it would be hypocritical to not have our kids participate in marijuana and stuff like that. So we thought it was cute to let ‘em smoke it and all that. It was an idiot move on our parts, a lot of us, to share that with out children.”

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Leonard Buschel

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