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TO ALL THE BOYS’ Noah Centineo Celebrates Sobriety: ‘Like a Superpower’
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TO ALL THE BOYS actor Noah Centineo recently talked about his latest feat in life: sobriety.
“By the time I did TO ALL THE BOYS, I had not been through my, like, rage phase. I got sober when I was 21 from everything for about a year. And that was kind of that whole TO ALL THE BOYS phase,” he explained on the “Chicks in the Office” podcast.
“I was so unhappy,” the actor said of the time. “I was able to pay my bills for the first time. I was, like, completely financially stable and secure. I was working regularly. And I was doing a lot of drugs. I wasn’t doing anything crazy, but I was just doing drugs a lot and drinking all the time. Every day. And I was young. I was 20 years old. And I had been doing that for a couple of years.”
“So, I had a career that I was proud of. I was making enough money to pay my rent and put a little bit away,” he added. “And, so, you would think I should be super stoked and super happy, and I just wasn’t.”
In a separate interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Centineo went into more detail about his addiction.
“There wasn’t really much I wouldn’t do. I never, ever injected anything, which is good. I smoked a lot of things. I was really upset, man. It was a really dark time in my life,” he revealed.
One day, the world “just looked different” to Centineo.
“It felt like it was the same world, but I was looking at it, and it felt like something had broken a little bit, and it scared me,” he said. “I realized that I needed to dry out, sober up and take a look at myself and take inventory to see what that change was. And to get back to myself.”
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So, he faced his addiction head-on and got sober.
The actor admitted that once he got sober, it felt “like a superpower.”
“You sleep better. You’re more focused. You’re more accountable. You hold yourself far more accountable if you have to prepare for something,” Centineo explained. “It’s not like you’re hungover, and you’re tired, and you can’t really remember your lines because you’re hungover.”
“You got to really confront things, too, if you’re not just drinking,” he continued. “If you’re drinking, you don’t really have to care about things. It’s a good way to numb yourself or self-medicate. So you’ve got to confront things, and then you have to find healthier ways to deal with those things.”
Centineo isn’t the only star to get sober in the last few years.
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