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Josh Brolinis celebrating a special milestone.
On Monday, the 53-year-old actor marked eight years of sobriety. In honor of the day, Brolin shared aphoto of his younger selfon Instagram and thanked “God, family, and friends” for helping him get there.
He continued, “And sobriety is when your children look at you and trust what they see (you can see it in their pupils, and the way they stand before you) — that they know they are not being cultivated into some idea but celebrated for the original garden they are growing into. Sobriety is about living better than your remembrance of what your greatest drunk ever was — an everyday malleability into gratitude for what is. None of this is deserved. All of it is perception. Thank you God, family, and friends for the most punk rock sobriety imaginable.”
TheAvengers: Endgamestarentered rehabfor substance abusein 2013after several public altercations in which he appeared to be intoxicated. In the same year, hesplit from his ex-wife, actressDiane Lane, in February after eight years of marriage.
During an interview withThe Guardianat the time, the Oscar nominee admitted that it was a “turning point.”
“It made me think of a lot of things. My mom dying when I was in my 20s. All the impact that had on me that I hadn’t moved past; I was always such a momma’s boy,” he said. “But I realized that I was on a destructive path. I knew that I had to change and mature. It was like I stepped back and saw the hamster wheel.”
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Brolin shares daughtersWestlyn Reign, 3, and Chapel Grace, 10 months, with wifeKathryn Brolin. He is also dad to his two adult children,Trevor BrolinandEden Brolin, whom he shares with ex-wife Alice Adair.
Next month, Brolin will celebrate another milestone: his youngest daughter’s first birthday. He and his wifewelcomed Chapel on Christmaslast year.
“Everywhere we have traveled the one place Kathryn and I found a great solace in were chapels. Not being particularly religious but a God feeling has heavily inundated our lives and chapels have always been sanctuaries where we felt connectedly free to gives thanks. Chapel Grace is, to us, a manifestation of that celestial feeling that was always felt as we meandered and knelt,” the father of four wrote onInstagramannouncing her birth.
source: people.com
