Josh Brolin opens up about sobriety journey: ‘I’m having more fun’

Actor Josh Brolin opens up about his sobriety after quitting alcohol over a decade ago.

The “Dune: Part Two” actor discussed maintaining his sobriety and life events that led him to get sober in a recent interview with the Times published on Saturday.

“I was born to drink. I was born to drink. My mother drank just like I did, and I was raised to be a man and drink like the male equivalent of my mother,” Brolin writes in an excerpt of his new memories. “From Under the Truck” obtained by The Times.

Brolin told the Times that he had decided to commit to sobriety after visiting his grandmother on her deathbed while drunk in 2013.

“I knew it would be the last time I drank,” said Brolin, who went to rehab, according to the Times interview.

Brolin, who is 56, said aging has made it easier to stay sober.

“I like getting older. It’s like a good excuse to finally say, ‘OK, don’t worry, you don’t have to constantly spin,'” he said.

Reflecting on his sobriety, Brolin shared that he has enjoyed staying away from drinking.

“I love being sober. I have more fun,” he said, adding, “There’s nothing I go through that I’m pretty sure wouldn’t be worse if I was drinking.”

Brolin told the Times that earlier in his career, his professional success, scoring leading roles in films such as “W.” and “No Country for Old Men”, had “confused” him.

“I wasn’t in the greatest frame of mind at the time. There was suddenly a lot of attention — I’d been doing it for a long time without attention. All of a sudden it was calls from great people, people I respected … talking,” he said.

Brolin also recalled how Barbra Streisand, to whom his father James Brolin is married, responded to his request for a glass of wine by asking, “But aren’t you a drunk?”

Brolin said he appreciated the blunt reaction, adding, “There’s nothing I ultimately appreciate more in someone than an ability to just say it, regardless of the reaction.”

Brolin shares two children with wife Kathryn Boyd, whom he married in 2016. Brolin also shares two children with his first wife, Alice Adair.