Denzel Washington Has Been Sober for 10 Years, Says He Used to Drink Two Bottles of Wine a Day and ‘I’ve Done Damage to the Body’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Denzel Washington revealed to Esquire magazine as part of a recent cover story that he is 10 years sober.
He cut off alcohol at 60 years old after a 15-year drinking pattern that started in the late 1990s. Washington said he never got “strung out” on alcohol but was more or less drinking daily for over a decade.
He event built a 10,000-bottle wine cellar in 1999. “Wine was my thing, and now I was popping $4,000 bottles just because that’s what was left,” Washington said. “And then later in those years I’d call Gil Turner’s Fine Wines & Spirits on Sunset Boulevard and say, ‘Send me two bottles, the best of this or that.’ And my wife’s saying, ‘Why do you keep ordering just two?’ I said, ‘Because if I order more, I’ll drink more.
So I kept it to two bottles, and I would drink them both over the course of the day.” “I had this ideal idea of wine tastings and all that—which is what it was at first.
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