48-year-old Bradley Cooper starred Guardians of the Galaxy, in May. (Hollywood, April 27, 2023) Getty Images:
The actor, who struggled with alcohol and cocaine addiction for many years, is now free. This August, he returned to his journey with great sincerity in the program “En plein nature avec Bear Grylls”.
According to Planetoscope, which draws on data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, more than 6 million Americans struggle with cocaine. An addiction that Bradley Cooper suffered from until 2004, against the backdrop of alcoholism and existential malaise. At the end of a long struggle with psychoactive substances that began at the age of 29, the actor finally got rid of his demons. And even if it’s been water under the bridges since then, he agreed to revisit the painful episode during an interview with adventurer Bear Grylls in early August on his Out in the Wild with Bear Grylls show. .
When the host asks him with fake naivety. “You’ve certainly had some crazy years,” Bradley Cooper replies with honesty. “In terms of alcohol and drugs, yes, but it has nothing to do with fame,” he softens.
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Relieve the pain
With drugs—cocaine and alcohol—Bradley Cooper was looking for escape, solace, solace. A need that only increased tenfold when he was fired from the series Atlas, in the early 2000s, which he shared with Jennifer Garner. Until the click. “I stopped drinking at the age of 29, and I have been sober for nineteen years. I was very lucky,” said the 48-year-old actor.
For him, the road to recovery is littered with pitfalls. Like in 2011, after the death of his father, Charles Cooper. “I had a pessimistic attitude towards life, I often thought that I was going to die. It wasn’t really pretty to look at for a while, until I told myself to accept myself for who I am and try to make peace with it,” she continued.
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A life test that forged him and that allowed him to better take on certain roles. Starting with Jackson Maine A Star Is Born (2018), a drug-addicted musician suffering from alcoholism. “It was easier for me to master the role. And thank God, I was at a time in my life when I was comfortable with all that, and I could really let myself go,” said the director. With awe-inspiring stamina.
Source: Le Figaro
