Hollywood star Denzel Washington has shared that at one point he used to wash down his throat with two bottles of fine wine a day. The 69-year-old `Training Day` star spent years battling a drinking problem but he has been sober for 10 years and he has revealed that his issues with alcohol started when he got a taste for pricey vintages after adding a wine cellar to the family home, reports `Female First UK`.
He told `Esquire` magazine, “Wine is very tricky. It`s very slow. It ain`t like, boom, all of a sudden. I never got strung out on heroin. Never got strung out on coke.
Never got strung out on hard drugs. I shot dope just like they shot dope, but I never got strung out. And I never got strung out on liquor. I had this ideal idea of wine tastings and all that, which is what it was at first. And that`s a very subtle thing.”
He further mentioned, “I mean, I drank the best, I learned to drink the best (when we added the wine cellar). So I`m gonna drink my `61s and my `82s and whatever we had. Wine was my thing, and now I was popping $4,000 bottles just because that`s what was left.”
As per `Female First UK`, he revealed he used to drink two bottles a day but he would never indulge when he was working.
Denzel shared, “I never drank while I was working or preparing. I would clean up, and go back to work, I could do both. However, after many months of shooting, bang, it`s time to go. Then, boom. Three months of wine, then time to go back to work.”
He went on to concede his drinking impacted his health but he`s hoping a decade sober will help him live well into old age.
He added, “I`ve done a lot of damage to the body. We`ll see. I`ve been clean. Things are opening up for me now like being 70. It`s real. And it`s OK. This is the last chapter — if I get another thirty, what do I want to do? My mother made it to ninety-seven. I`m doing the best I can.”
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