Alec Baldwin Reflects On 40 Years Of Sobriety After Snorting 'Cocaine From Here To Saturn'
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The "Rust" actor, who's indicted on an involuntary manslaughter charge, reflected on his early days in Hollywood during a revealing chat.
Alec Baldwin hasn’t done drugs since 1985 — and he couldn’t be happier about it.
The actor was having a casual chat about Frank Sinatra in an episode of the “Our Way with Paul Anka and Skip Bronson” podcast released Wednesday, when the conversation turned from the Rat Pack to Baldwin’s decadeslong sobriety after Anka asked if Baldwin was “a drinker.”
“I don’t discuss this a lot, I discuss it every now and then when it makes sense,” he said. “I’m 39 years sober. I got sober Feb. 23, 1985. Because, as I tell people — and you’ll appreciate this — I was in Los Angeles in ’83, and I had a two-year, daily white-hot problem.”
“Every day for two years, I think I snorted a line of cocaine from here to Saturn,” he continued. “We did one on the rings of Saturn, then we … took it back home. I mean, cocaine was like coffee back then — everybody was doing it all day long. I did a lot of coke.”
The native New Yorker had yet to land major roles in “Beetlejuice” or “Working Girl,” which came to define his early silver screen career, when he decided to become drug-free. However, he revealed that he knew alcohol would become his newfound crutch after quitting drugs.