SPIDER-MAN Star Tom Holland: Sobriety Is ‘Liberating’
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tom holland loves his sober life and recently opened up about why he gave up alcohol.
“When I realized that alcohol wasn’t masking my insecurity or bringing out my best self — it was actually doing the opposite — I then started to feel this freedom of like, ‘Oh, I can just be myself and I have nothing to be insecure about,'” the spider-man star said on Rich Roll’s podcast. “That’s when it started to get easier, and I started to really feel the benefit of not being kind of tied to this drink.”
He recalled how, as a young actor, he used alcohol to “try to fit into the L.A. world.”
“And now that I’ve grown up a little bit — and I know that it isn’t my place to be — I don’t try as hard to, like, go out to the L.A. parties and mix with celebrities that I don’t know,” he continued. “But I used to go to these parties and be like, ‘I can’t speak to someone until I’m drunk.’ Like, I’ve got to get this going. And now that I’ve kicked that, and I’ve found replacements that make me feel like I’m a part of the process without sacrificing my morning, my afternoon, my next few days, has been so liberating.”
The turning point for Holland came in 2022 when he participated in Dry January, “a campaign launched in 2013 by British charity and campaign group Alcohol Change UK, in which people sign up to abstain from alcohol for the month of January,” the Straits Times sobriety-journey-as-he-launches-non-alcoholic-beer#:~:text=Holland%20said%20the%20turning%20point,February%2C”%20Holland%20told%20Forbes.">reported.
“Dry January was really tough, so I ended up spilling over into February,” the actor sobriety-and-breaking-into-beer/">told Forbes in an interview. “February was no easier. Then I did March, and I sort of said to myself, look, if I can do six months without drinking, I get to June 1, which is my birthday, and I would have proved to myself that I don’t have a problem.”
“By the time I’d done six months, I started to feel great,” he added. “It was very difficult; it has been the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and arguably the greatest achievement of my life. I’m very proud to be sober today.”
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To help himself and others in their sobriety journey, Holland just announced his new non-alcoholic beer company.
“BERO was born out of a personal journey and I couldn’t be prouder to be launching it today,” he shared on Instagram last week.
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