This December Anthony Hopkins will celebrate 50 years of sobriety. He was 38 years old when he realized he “needed help” and contacted an Alcoholics Anonymous group . Since then he has not touched a drop of alcohol and has spoken publicly about his sobriety to help those struggling with the bottle. Now, in an interview with the New York Times podcast The Interview , the 87-year-old actor, whose memoir We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir is set to publish on November 4, revealed the exact moment he decided to stop drinking.

It was December 29, 1975, and, as he recounted, “I was drunk and driving my car here in California in a blackout, no clue where I was going, when I realized that I could have killed somebody—or myself, which I didn’t care about—and I realized that I was an alco

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