Sam Worthington shares that his wife's ultimatum 'pulled him back from the brink.'
star then recalled chugging four or five glasses of champagne before hopping on a plane. Worthington toldthat his wife, Lara, told him she'd never seen anyone drink so much before a plane took off.
The actor says he would start his morning drinking, but"nine out of 10 people couldn't tell." He was, essentially, a functioning drunk. "I'd go haywire over someone asking me for a photograph or taking a photograph of me," he said."If someone approached me, my anxiety would go through the roof." "In Australia it's ingrained in the society," he explained."We don't necessarily talk about AA [Alcoholics Anonymous] and things like that. You don't recognize it's an illness, and you don't understand that some people are just wired differently.""You can do what you want, but I don't need to be around this," the actor recalled her telling him.
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