Sir Anthony Hopkins
45 years ago, the Oscar winner renounced alcohol
Sir Anthony Hopkins encourages his followers.
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Sir Anthony Hopkins used to struggle with a serious alcohol addiction. Today the actor has been dry for an incredible 45 years.
45 years ago Sir Anthony Hopkins (82, "Hannibal") received a "wake-up call", as a result of which he renounced alcohol forever. On Tuesday (December 29th), two days before his 83rd birthday, the British Oscar winner celebrated his personal milestone "full of gratitude" on Twitter. In a video, he talks about his bad addiction to drinking and addresses encouraging words to the young generation at the end of the Corona year.
"I was heading for a catastrophe, drank myself to death," Hopkins recalls in the short clip in black and white from 1975. He doesn't want to "preach anything" to anyone, but has a "message" for his audience: " A quick thought that was, 'Do you want to live or die?' I said: 'I want to live.' "Since that moment, more than four decades ago, the 82-year-old's life has been 'great'.
At the end of the "tough year" 2020, which was "full of grief and sadness" for many people due to the corona pandemic, the "Red Dragon" actor had another message in store for young people. As a dry alcoholic, he himself had "bad days" and had "a few twists of doubt". But: "Today is the morning that you were so worried about yesterday."
"Be courageous and powerful forces will come to your aid"
"Don't give up. Just hold on, keep fighting. Be brave and powerful forces will come to your aid," advises Hopkins. This behavior has "strengthened him throughout his life". At the end of his one-minute video, the British screen legend wishes its almost 700,000 followers a "Happy New Year" in 2021 and predicts: "It will be the best year."