Anne Hathaway has been sober for more than five years and kept her promise to stay dry while raising her young children. For her, consciously staying alert for so long is more important than reaching a certain birthday.
The “The Princess Diaries” and “The Devil Wears Prada” alum, who stars in Prime Video’s adaptation of Robinne Lee’s 2017 romance novel “The Idea of You,” addressed her sobriety when discussing the middle age, an arbitrary milestone she says she doesn't have. I don't take it seriously.
“There are many other things that I identify as milestones. “I don’t normally talk about it, but I’ve been sober for over five years,” she said this week on the New York Times podcast “The Interview.” “That seems like a milestone to me.”
“Forty feels like a gift. The fact of the matter is that I hesitate to call things “middle-aged” simply because I can be a bit of a semantic stickler and might get hit by a car later today. I really hope that doesn't happen. [but] We don't know if this is middle age. “We don’t know anything,” Hathaway said.
Hathaway, who turned 41 in November, reflected on the beginnings of her career and the so-called Hatha-hate she had to face after winning an Oscar for “Les Miserables” in 2013, years after beloved roles in romantic comedies and turns. more serious. in “Brokeback Mountain” and “The Dark Knight Rises.”
“As a young woman who previously suffered from chronic stress, I remember thinking one day, 'You're taking this for granted. You are taking your life for granted. You have no idea. Something could fall from the sky and the lights would go out for you. So when I see my old instincts coming up, I just tell myself: You're not going to die stressed,” she said.
The former teen star said that when she was younger, she “didn't know how to breathe yet” and was “very much in her head about a lot of things.” A self-described former people pleaser from New Jersey said she “probably” drank as a way of coping with not feeling comfortable in her own body.
“I feel too exposed to talk about the 'alienation I felt from my body,' but there was a lot of somatic stress there,” he said.
The mother of two, who welcomed her second child in 2019, didn't go into too much detail about what changed her from a stressed-out person to who she is now, noting that she likes to “keep my personal things personal.” ,” But he poked fun a little at the turning point of the interview.
“I was trapped in this feeling. It's that 'I want to achieve things, I want to grow,' and you think, mistakenly, that the way to do that is to be very hard on yourself,” he said, and then noted that people are self-guided. -criticism.
“[T]There was a moment when I realized that to keep that narrative alive, I was going to have to deny a lot of things. I just said: you're going to have to accept that if nothing else happens to you, you've had a really wonderful life. You have been given gifts and opportunities. And for you to continue walking this path without being grateful, I don't think you're really like that. “It felt like a light went on.”
During a January 2019 appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” the movie star revealed that it had been several months since she had a drink.
“I stopped drinking in October,” Hathaway told DeGeneres. “For 18 years. “I'm going to stop drinking while my son lives in my house because I don't love the way I do it and he's getting to an age where he really needs me all the time in the morning.”
He later clarified that the problem was not drinking, but the hangover.
“I did not put [a drink] I stopped drinking because my drinking was a problem,” he told Modern Luxury in April 2019. “I quit because the way I drink leads to hangovers and that was the problem. My last hangover lasted five days.”
“When I'm at a stage in my life where there's enough room for a hangover, I start drinking again, but that won't be until my son leaves the house,” she said.
In a Vanity Fair profile last month, Hathaway talked about having an existential review over the past five years, sharing again that that's when she gave up alcohol, describing it as “fuel for wallowing.”
“This is the first time I know myself so well,” she told the magazine. “I don't live by what others think of me. “I know my own mind and I am connected to my own feelings… I laugh much faster now.”
