{"id":133140,"date":"2024-11-16T23:01:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T23:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/16\/josh-brolin-ive-had-more-fun-since-getting-sober\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T23:01:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T23:01:52","slug":"josh-brolin-ive-had-more-fun-since-getting-sober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/16\/josh-brolin-ive-had-more-fun-since-getting-sober\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Brolin: I&#8217;ve had more fun since getting sober"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-11-16\" datetime=\"1731798112\" pubdate=\"\">16 November 2024<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/josh-brolin\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,josh-brolin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Brolin<\/a> thinks he has &#8220;more fun&#8221; now he&#8217;s sober.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Josh Brolin has been sober since 2013<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old actor has been sober from alcohol since 2013, and Josh admits that it&#8217;s changed his life for the better.<\/p>\n<p>He told The Sunday Times newspaper: &#8220;I love being sober. I have more fun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s nothing that I go through that I am absolutely certain wouldn\u2019t be worse if I was drinking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Josh had a reckoning in 2013, when he woke up on the street after being involved in a fight at a fast food drive-through in Santa Monica.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe actor decided there and then that he needed to quit drinking forever.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe shared: &#8220;I knew that was going to be the last time I drank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nJosh subsequently joined Alcoholics Anonymous and he hasn&#8217;t looked back since then.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Hollywood star said: &#8220;I like getting older. It\u2019s like a great excuse to finally go, \u2018OK, just mellow out, you don\u2019t need to constantly spin.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nJosh previously admitted that he was on a &#8220;destructive path&#8221; amid his drinking woes.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe actor recognised that he needed to &#8220;change and mature&#8221; when his mom became unwell.<\/p>\n<p>\nJosh &#8211; who first found fame as a child, when he starred in the hit movie &#8216;The Goonies&#8217; &#8211; told the Guardian newspaper: &#8220;It was another turning point.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It made me think of a lot of things. My mom dying when I was in my 20s. All the impact that had on me that I hadn\u2019t moved past; I was always such a mama\u2019s boy. But I realised that I was on a destructive path. I knew that I had to change and mature. It was like I stepped back and saw the hamster wheel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/josh-brolin-fun-since-getting-sober-1409184.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 November 2024 Josh Brolin thinks he has &#8220;more fun&#8221; now he&#8217;s sober. Josh Brolin has been sober since 2013 The 56-year-old actor has been sober from alcohol since 2013, and Josh admits that it&#8217;s changed his life for the better. He told The Sunday Times newspaper: &#8220;I love being sober. 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