Josh Brolin watched John Travolta use Scientology techniques on Marlon Brando in Barbra Streisand’s living room

From the sudden death of his mother to an uphill battle with addiction, Josh Brolin‘s 56 years of life have been filled with heartbreak, turmoil and often surreal moments.

In his newly released memoir, “From Under the Truck,” the “Goonies” actor opens up about his rocky upbringing, the ins and outs of his alcoholism, fatherhood and various out-of-this-world experiences, including the time he says he experienced John Travolta heals Marlon Brando in stepmother Barbra Streisand’s living room during a dinner party.

“I had been invited to dinner with John Travolta; Kelly, his beautiful and immensely pleasant wife; Marlon Brando; a redhead Marlon had met on the Internet; my pop and his wife, Barbra (a singer),” Brolin wrote. “I was twenty-seven years old, and the whole reason I got into acting was because of the early movies I’d seen with Marlon and the late James Dean (who, by the way, died in a car accident on the outskirts of my hometown Paso) Robles and ended up in the same morgue that my mother would get a few months before the 40th anniversary of his death).”

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Josh Brolin recounted a star-studded dinner party in his new memoir. (Getty Images)

“Wow. I was supposed to meet the Marlon Brando,” he recalled thinking at the time.

“When (Marlon) got out of the car and stood up, he reached down and pulled up his pant leg. During that, blood was running down his leg,” he continued. “He explained that he had stopped to help some people pull their cars from a landslide on the Pacific Coast Highway and when he tried to pull a cat out of some mud, it got traction and the bumper hit his leg. “

Brolin said that’s when he heard Travolta, a longtime and well-known Scientologist, say, “I just got to the next level!”

“Marlon sauntered up to John and John to Marlon and they gave each other an exuberant hug,” he wrote. “John excitedly told Marlon how he had just completed a (Scientology) course on healing and that he could help him. John gently took Marlon by the hand and led him inside, towards Barbra’s living room.”

“When I came in, Marlon was passed out on a chaise longue and John told him to close his eyes,” he continued. “I stood there quietly, leaving mine open. John put his hand on Marlon’s leg, then his other hand on Marlon’s chest. Time passed quietly. No one spoke. I was the person furthest away from them. I watched. Marlon Brando and Danny Zuko. It’s insane.”

Brolin had a memorable moment with Travolta and Brando at a dinner party hosted by stepmother Barbra Streisand. (Getty Images)

“How is it?” Brolin recalled Travolta asking Brando.

“Wow,” Brando replied.

“I know it’s really something,” Travolta said.

“Marlon stood up looking less blanched than before,” Brolin wrote. “I had just seen John Travolta repair Marlon to Brando.”

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Throughout his book, Brolin shares various stories about growing up, the challenges he faced after losing his mother, Jane—who died in a car accident in 1995—and how Streisand’s “old-fashioned” approach to motherhood eventually helped him to move forward with seeking sobriety.

“The reality is (Jane and Streisand) would have hated each other,” Brolin wrote. “I’m convinced of that. Tough people almost always hate other tough people, unless you’ve let their guard down. But I’ve always liked tough women.”

Josh Brolin became Streisand’s stepson when his father married her in 1998. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Streisand and Brolin’s father, James Brolin, married in 1998 when Josh was 30 years old. In the book, he recalled a moment when Streisand gently called him out while he was deep in his alcoholism.

“I walked into their house one day: “I’ll have a glass of wine,” I said. She looked at me and tilted her head, so I repeated myself. “I want a glass of red wine, please. ‘ She took a slow breath and hit me with, ‘Aren’t you an alcoholic?'” Brolin wrote.

“That was a pretty ballsy thing to say,” he continued. “I knew her for a while already, she was my father’s wife now and he was really in love with her and from what I could see she was with him too. ‘Don’t you want to drink?’ Man, there it is again. She always had a way of washing her tongue with a bull before she spoke to me. My own mother was like that, so it didn’t paralyze me, but my own mother was dead, so this had to be done.”

“‘It’s fine. It’s just a glass of wine,’ I tried to justify. ‘I (don’t) think you should be drinking anything, right?'” Brolin wrote.

Josh Brolin spoke about his relationship with Barbra Streisand in his memoir. (Joe Maher/Getty Images)

“It’s a puzzle, the psychology of winning, regardless of the consequences. I wanted what I wanted and that was my only concern. I’d been in jail more than a few times by then. I’d put my children in danger . I had lost relationships and friendships, I knew that a drink wouldn’t make anything better, but it was very likely that any situation would eventually get worse,” he continued.

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The Marvel star said his relationship with Streisand “started out great, turned sour and then grew in value.”

James Brolin, Barbra Streisand and Josh Brolin attend the “Jonah Hex” Los Angeles Premiere held at ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome on June 17, 2010 in Hollywood, California. (Lester Cohen/WireImage)

“My mother was dead and no one would replace my own mother, no matter how toxic my own mother may have been,” he wrote. “(Barbra) signed a card to me once: Love, Mom. You see, there it is. Mom. You’re not my mom. You’re my stepmom. Who wants to be a stepmom, though? No one. It means evil intentions: drastic compensations for cosmetic insecurity, misery loves company, me me syndrome She didn’t want a family.

James Brolin holds his son, Josh Brolin, with his wife, actress Jane Cameron Agee, circa 1972. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

“The amazing Jewish mother,” he continued. “I’d heard of them. I’d read about them. I’d had some friends with them. They’re almost always comical on offense.”

“She never saw the guy I was,” he added. “She was never (private) about the things that got me in jail or in fights or finding out why I woke up on the sidewalks with my T-shirt wrapped around my otherwise bare waist. That’s what I understood that a mother was for the longest time This was different.

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James Brolin and Barbra Streisand have been married for almost 30 years. (Serge BENHAMOU/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Brolin — who is father to four: Trevor Mansur, 36, and Eden, 29, with ex-wife Alice Adair, and daughters Westlyn Reign, 6, and Chapel Grace, 3, with wife Kathryn Boyd — found sobriety at 45 years old.

In September, during an appearance on the SiriusXM podcast “Where Everyone Knows Your Name” with co-hosts Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson, Brolin opened up about how his 99-year-old grandmother was ultimately the one who pushed him toward recovery in 2013.

Recalling his last night of drinking, Brolin said he “woke up on the sidewalk” near a Del-Taco.

Brolin detailed his addiction journey in his upcoming memoir, “From Under the Truck.” (Getty Images)

“I didn’t know where my car was, and it wasn’t that rare,” said the “Dune” actor, who was to see his grandmother on her deathbed. “It was just, you know, the 400th time it happened.”

“I should have picked up my brother and taken them because I was the type, I was the one in the family who put everything together and structured everything and controlled everything,” he added. “Anyway, I woke up on the sidewalk, walked in. My brother called me. ‘Where are you?’ Collected him and went into the hospital in the end.”

When he got to his grandmother’s room, he said everything changed from that moment on.

Josh Brolin, pictured in 1987. (Frank Carroll/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)

“Everybody knew that when I walked into the room, (she) lifted her head up and looked at me and smiled and that was it,” he said. “I was done. I said, ‘If this woman could get through 99 years on life’s terms, how dare I?’

“I said, ‘How dare I,’ and I got away with, I was 45 years old, and I got away with a lot, been to jail nine times, done a little bit of everything,” he continued. “So I thought, I wonder if I could do that half of life like this and then do this half of life like this. Then I get to live two lives and not just one.”

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Fox News Digital’s Emily Trainham contributed to this report.