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Anne Hathaway: I’m 5 Years Sober! Yay for Me!

Anne Hathaway has some very personal and very impressive news to share.

In a recent interview with The New York Times while promoting her upcoming film, The Idea of ​​You, Hathaway said the following:

“There are many other things that I recognize as milestones.

“I don’t usually talk about it, but I’ve been sober for over five years. This feels like a milestone to me. 40 feels like a gift.

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Anne Hathaway attends the New York premiere of Prime Video’s “The Idea of ​​You” at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 29, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

Hathaway revealed this a few weeks ago she also had an abortion Back in 2015.

In this case, the star has cited his excessive dependence on alcohol several times in the past.

For example, speaking to Vanity Fair in March, Hathaway said she knew “inside out” [drinking] Wasn’t for me,” adding at the time:

“And it felt very hard to say, ‘But no one?’ But no one. If you’re allergic to something or have an anaphylactic reaction to something, you don’t argue with it.

“So I stopped arguing with it.”

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Anne Hathaway attends “The Idea of ​​You” screening and conversation at 92NY on April 28, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

In The Idea of ​​You – which will be released on Amazon Prime Video on May 2 – Hathaway plays a woman named Solenn.

She’s a 40-year-old single mother and she begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, lead singer of the most popular boy band on the planet, August Moon.

The Oscar winner told Vanity Fair she’s proud of her decision to stay sober.

Hathaway added, “My personal experience with it is that everything is better.” “To me, it was fuel to waste. And I don’t like wallowing.”

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Anne Hathaway attends the world premiere of “The Idea of ​​You” during SXSW at The Paramount Theater on March 16, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Daniel Bozarski/Getty Images for Amazon MGM Studios)

During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2019, Hathaway told the public for the first time that she had given up alcohol.

“I quit drinking 18 years ago in October,” Hathaway — who shares children Jonathan, 8, and Jack, 4, with her husband Adam Shulman — told the host at the time.

“I will stop drinking alcohol as long as my sons stay in my house.

“I don’t love my way at all [drink] And he’s getting to that age where he needs me all the time in the morning.

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Andrew Scott and Anne Hathaway attend the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards on February 25, 2024 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)

Through the same interview, Hathaway recalled the day she was dropping her son off at school.

While she was not driving, Hathaway said, “I was drunk and that was enough for me. I didn’t like that.”

We applaud Anne Hathaway for this decision – and we wish her the best moving forward!

“It’s a path that everyone has to walk for themselves,” he told Vanity Fair at the end.

“The thing I’m confident about is that everyone else will have one or two drinks, and by the time everyone else has had two drinks, you’ll feel like you’ve had two drinks – but without the hangover.”

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