Anthony Hopkins opens up about moment he realized he

Anthony Hopkins seemed again at the moment in his life the place he realized he was an alcoholic

The Oscar-winning actor, 87, appeared on The New York Times podcast The Interview to debate his upcoming memoir, ‘We Did OK, Kid’ which is able to come out on November 4. During the Saturday, October 25 episode of the podcast, he recounted the important turning point in his life that occurred on December 29, 1975, in the late morning.

“I’m always slightly reluctant to talk about it because I don’t want to sound preachy. But I was drunk and driving my car here in California in a blackout, no clue where I was going, when I realized that I could have killed somebody — or myself, which I didn’t care about—and I realized that I was an alcoholic,” Anthony started.

“I came to my senses and said to an ex-agent of mine at this party in Beverly Hills, ‘I need help.’ It was 11 o’clock precisely — I looked at my watch — and this is the spooky part: Some deep powerful thought or voice spoke to me from inside and said: ‘It’s all over. Now you can start living. And it has all been for a purpose, so don’t forget one moment of it,'” he continued.

The Silence of the Lambs star elaborated on the voice that spoke to him, stating it got here from “deep inside.” Anthony also shared that the voice was “vocal, male, reasonable, like a radio voice.”

He went on to say how, from that moment he heard the voice, the craving to drink was gone. Anthony said, “Now I don’t have any theories except divinity or that power that we all possess inside us that creates us from birth, life force, whatever it is. It’s a consciousness, I believe. That’s all I know.”

The Welsh performer mirrored on what led to his consuming as he recalled being a “lonely” baby and surviving “those bullies”. He indicated that he selected to drink instead of wallowing.

“And that’s why I drank. To nullify that discomfort or whatever it was in me, because it made me feel big. You know, booze is terrific because it makes you instantly feel in a different space,” Anthony explained.

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He added that he remembered those consuming classes with actors “in those days” like Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton, which had him “thinking ‘This is the life. We’re rebels, we’re outsiders, we can celebrate.'” But then another thought percolated in the again of his thoughts that said, “‘It’ll kill you as well.'”

The father-of-one famous how the actors he labored with “have all gone.” Later in the interview, he expressed that he is grateful to still be right here, even when he wonders how.

Las December, Anthony celebrated 49 years of sobriety with an Instagram put up. In the Instagram video on December 29, 2024, he spoke about the incident that resulted in the milestone.

“And I was having such fun. But then I realized I was in big, big trouble because I couldn’t remember anything and I was driving a car drunk out of my skull,” he said. “Then on that fatal day, I realized I needed help. So I got it. I phoned up a group of people like me — alcoholic. And that was it. Sober. I’ve had more fun these 49 years than ever.”