Alec Baldwin is reflecting on his sobriety journey and being 39 years drug-free.
The actor, 66, appeared on the May 1 episode of the Our Way with Paul Anka and Skip Bronson podcast to talk about his life and career. “I don’t discuss this a lot,” he admitted when asked about whether he drinks alcohol. “I discuss it every now and then when it makes sense. I’m 39 years sober. I got sober Feb. 23, 1985.”
Baldwin recalled moving from his native New York City to Los Angeles in 1983, telling hosts Anka and Bronson, “I had a white-hot problem every day for two years. I think I snorted a line of cocaine from here to Saturn.”
He and his friends in Hollywood, he continued, “did one on the rings of Saturn, then we came home — we took it back home. I mean, cocaine was like coffee back then. Everybody was doing it all day long.”
Then, he said, “because I stopped…
