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Danny Trejo celebrates 55 years of being sober
Heat, Con Air, From Dusk Till Dawn and many more, took to Twitter to reflect on his sobriety journey.“I’m 55 years clean and sober today by the grace of God!” he wrote on Wednesday (August 23).“I’ve done this one day at a time, and for anyone out there struggling YOU CAN TOO!”I’m 55 years clean and sober today by the grace of God! I’ve done this one day at a time, and for anyone out there struggling YOU CAN TOO! pic.twitter.com/iQvYKW2VkR— Danny Trejo (@officialDannyT) August 23, 2023Trejo has been open about his addiction struggles in the past, revealing that he was just eight years old when he first tried marijuana, and 12 when he started drinking alcohol. He started using heroin in his teens and went on to deal it too.He had been in and out of correctional facilities since the 1950s, and later served prison time at California’s notorious San Quentin State Prison at 24.It was there that he started attending AA meetings, when a former inmate convinced him to try sobriety.
