06/16/2022
“Will was like, ‘Hey man, do you remember we had dinner the other night?’ He goes, ‘How do you think that went?’” Cooper said. “I remember being at the dinner thinking I was so funny, and I thought these two guys, who were my heroes, thought that I was so funny. ... I was like ‘I thought it was great. I thought I was killing.’"
Arnett's response? "You were a real a--hole, man."
☀️☀️Sometimes I fantasize about what I wish people would’ve said to me when I was in the throes of my addiction.😬
I wish someone would have told me that they were concerned about how much alcohol I was drinking Because of the behaviors I was exhibiting. The behaviors that I know they saw, over and over again, my same routine, those behaviors that were slowly killing me from the inside out.
Behaviors like over drinking at dinner parties, slurring, and saying foolish things more and more often.
Making impulsive decisions 
Getting into fights more often.
Just plain talking and acting good old fashion stupid.
Harsher fights with family members.
. just a little bit too tipsy, embarrassing my friends my family even people who worked for me.
And the drunk driving… Lots of people knew I Drove drunk.
Far too many of us are drinking way way too much and we know it. I have no interest in being “the alcohol police”, but I do believe that we need to have these conversations about what these substances are doing to us, to our relationships, to our children and to our minds, intellect and Ability to communicate with each other.
I got sober over a decade ago…
…2022 is a whole new ballgame in the arena of addiction, sobriety, recovery, moderation, abstinence… We know so much more now than 10 years ago. About addiction itself, about our neurobiology and people know that alcohol is a terrible drug. You literally have to be under a rock not to know how awful alcohol is. We still use it it’s OK lots of people use lots of things that are bad for them, but🤷🏼♀️.
But please let’s get honest about what this drug does to those of us Who may have trauma or are going through something in life a transition, a death in the family for god sake‘s the last five years alone in the United States is traumatic enough for anyone to drink more… But we need to talk about it. There are so many wonderful ways to explore sobriety to look at your drinking in a way that allows you to see what kind of relationship you have with this drug known as alcohol.
I just want us all to take a deep breath and start talking about things that are hard.
Because if I’ve learned anything since I’ve gotten sober, gone to grad school gotten some education about the human mind and started practicing with real people who have real problems whew…is that we are able to find ways through them using techniques that have been around forever but we’ve just not been using them. 🤷🏼♀️
Anyway thanks for reading this far. I’m gonna keep doing this it’s kind of like a journal for me at this point of how I am coping with this really difficult time in our history.
In a new podcast interview, the actor opens up about the conversation with one famous friend that changed everything.
