Ben Affleck on how Robert Downey Jr. helped him with his sobriety: '[These are] guys who have been very supportive and to whom I feel a great sense of gratitude.”
."And then as that got worse, that was really, really painful. And I always said, 'That'll never be me. I'm never gonna do that.'"
"I wish he had been sober during those formative years, but what he's taught me is how important it is for me to be sober now during these formative years for my kids," he added."[That] is one of the hard parts of being the child of an alcoholic," he said."Do you think, 'What if my dad gets drunk? What if he does something stupid? What if he ends up on"I took the last half of the year off and I just got to be Dad," he continued.
"People on their deathbeds don't talk about what they obtained or were awarded. They talk about their loved ones or their regrets," he shared."I say that as someone who's let the work take me away." "Kids are so delicate. They absorb everything," he continued."They need to have their hand held and things explained. They need to be listened to. When I get in that busy work mode, I'm not hearing. I want to be better at that."in 2014, Downey Jr.
"I don't drink or do drugs anymore," he continued."I realized I wasn't going to live up to my potential, and that scared the hell out of me. I thought, 'Wow, I'm actually gonna ruin my life. I'm really gonna ruin it.'"
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