Jason Ritter opened up about his struggles with alcohol during the early days of his relationship with Melanie Lynskey.
Drew Barrymore
asked Ritter, “What was your moment when you knew [Lynskey was the one],” to which he replied, “I knew how incredible Melanie was early on.” He continued, “It's not as cute of a story as you would like to think. It was messy and interesting and weird. But mixed in the mix, [I was] dealing with some alcoholism issues.” Getting choked up he added, “At a point, I knew how amazing she was, and I thought she would be incredible for someone who deserved her, basically.
Ritter explained, “I didn't feel like I was that person. I thought [I was] a little bit too crazy. So it was only after like maybe a year into not drinking where I started to go, ‘Oh, maybe I can promise some things to someone else. Maybe I can be this person.’ It's been like a slow burn. I knew she was incredible. It was working on myself enough to feel like maybe I can be the one for her, too.” As she wiped around tears, Lynskey added that her husband had done “so much work on himself.
Barrymore then shared her own experience with sobriety, revealing, “I haven't had a drink—and I'm not sober, I don't work a program—but alcohol was my poison. And I haven't had a drink in almost four years.” Earlier this month, Barrymore told the.
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