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Tom Holland has admitted he felt “enslaved” by alcohol before making the decision to give up drinking.
The British Marvel star, 27, confirmed in May that he had been sober for a year and four months.
He has now revealed he realized he was addicted to alcohol after struggling through dry January after a particularly boozy Christmas vacation.
“I didn’t one day wake up and say ‘I’m giving up drinking’,” he explained.
“I just, like many Brits, had had a very, very boozy December, Christmas time, I was on vacation, I was drinking a lot.”
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Holland added he has always been able to handle a lot of alcohol, which he believes he gets from his mother’s side of the family.
However, when it came time to take a break for the new year, going sober for a month proved tougher than he imagined.
“I decided to just give up for January, I wanted to do just dry January, and all I think about was taking a drink,” he admitted on Jay Shetty’s podcast.
“It was all I could think about. I was waking up thinking about it, I was checking the clock, ‘When’s it 12?’ And it just really scared me.”
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After a difficult January, Holland decided to “punish” himself by going sober in February, too.
“I was like, ‘Wow, maybe I have a little bit of an alcohol thing’,” he recalled.
The young star realized he might have an alcohol problem when two months sober also proved challenging.
He struggled to be social and found it hard to go to the pub or out for dinner, so he eventually decided to make a change.
“I said to myself, if I can do six months without alcohol, then I can prove to myself that I don’t have a problem,” he said.
“By the time I had got to June 1, I was the happiest I had ever been in my life.”
Now, the Spider-Man A-lister feels much healthier and says he’s been sleeping better and managing his temper.
“Things that would go wrong on set that would normally set me off, I could take in my stride,” he added.
“[I have] such better mental clarity, I felt healthier, I felt fitter and I just sort of said to myself, ‘Why am I enslaved to this drink? Why am I so obsessed by the idea of having this drink?’”
He confirmed he has now “distanced” himself from the UK’s rugby community due to its drinking culture, but clarified he hasn’t tried to push his new lifestyle onto anyone else.
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