Bradley Cooper has been vocal about becoming sober and cleaning up his act after being out of control during his 20s
, has since helped him remain on the wagon. “Every single thing is absolutely shaded by or brought out in glorious colors by the fact that I get to be a father to a wonderful human being,” Cooper said.“I don’t drink or do drugs anymore,” Cooper toldin September 2012, explaining that “being sober” helped “a great deal” with his rise in Hollywood.
Cooper recalled being “so concerned” with what people thought of him before he cut out substances. “I always felt like an outsider. I just lived in my head. I realized I wasn’t going to live up to my potential, and that scared the hell out of me. I thought, ‘Wow, I’m actually gonna ruin my life; I’m really gonna ruin it,’” he explained.
While Cooper’s friends repeatedly told him to slow down, it took a while for him to make the change. “Part of me believed it, and part of me didn’t. But the proof was in the pudding: I’d always gotten up at the crack of dawn, and that was out the window,” he said. “I remember looking at my life, my apartment, my dogs, and I thought, ‘What’s happening?’”in December 2013 of his substance abuse. “I think work was getting f–ked up.
The Oscar nominated actor recalled feeling a weight lifted when he started filming projects sober. “I was doing these movies, and I got to meet Sandra Bullock and meet these people and work with them,” he said. “And I’m sober, and I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m actually myself. And I don’t have to put on this air to be somebody else, and this person still wants to work with me? Oh, what the f–k is that about?’ I was rediscovering myself in this workplace, and it was wonderful.
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