Bold & The Beautiful's Sean Kanan Reveals Emotional Reason for Getting Sober

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Sean Kanan is opening up about getting sober. The 58-year-old The Bold & The Beautiful star, who has portrayd Deacon Sharpe on the series since 2000, spoke out about what motivated him to quit drinking almost five years ago.

During a conversation with People, Sean said that his wife Michele Kanan made a plea that hit him “like a lightning bolt.” Keep reading to find out more… “She said to me at one point, ‘I have put my heart and everything into this relationship.

Please tell me that I didn’t back the wrong horse,’” he said. “I had been trying for a very long time to get sober, and I had intermittent periods of success followed by fairly catastrophic setbacks, let’s say.

But when I heard that, I don’t know. The skies parted,” he went on to explain. “It set something in motion that was different than everything before.” Sean says the thought of losing Michele was what he needed to commit to his sobriety. “I believe there’s two forces in the universe that create profound and lasting change in human beings, and that’s fear and love.