Denzel Washington has revealed that he is 10 years sober and after drinking two bottles of wine a day for over a decade, has “done a lot of damage” to his body.
The actor was 60 years old when he cut alcohol out of his life. He had developed a drinking pattern in the late 1990s that would span 15 years, and while he never got “strung out” on alcohol, he was drinking far more than the recommended amount.
“Wine was my thing, and now I was popping $4,000 bottles just because that’s what was left,” Washington, 69, told Esquire magazine. “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.”
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