The actor said his life 'went off the rails' when he wasn't writing regularly.
"I haven't missed a day in 18 years. That's a lie though," Shepard quickly corrected himself."I had a two year period after a movie I directed where I wasn't writing in it regularly, and then my life went off the rails, and so I haven't missed a day in years.
"But I had, uninterrupted, probably 14 years of never missing one day," he continued."That's because of sobriety. I got superstitious that if I missed a day, I would relapse. It just became a rule I established early on, so I think because it had that weight and commitment behind it. It really was no big deal.
Wu picked up the habit of running when she was 19, and has ran almost every day for the past 20 years, besides when she took breaks, like when she was pregnant.. In an episode of"Armchair Expert," he shared that he had been battling an addiction with the opioid painkiller Vicodin for the previous few months.01:43
But after a visit to see his father, who was also prescribed Percocet at the same time, he recalled,"I give him a bunch of Percocet, and then I go, 'I have a prescription for this and I was in a motorcycle accident and I’m going to take some, too.'"He said he's sustained other injuries from riding a motorcycle over the years and always used the painkillers as prescribed, until early 2020 when he started"getting shadier and shadier.
After confessing the relapse to Bell and getting clean again, he shared the news with his audience as well.
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