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She has fame and fortune, but Anne Hathaway says her biggest accomplishment has been getting sober.
The Interstellar actress (41) last had a drink five years ago, she told The New York Times, while promoting her new movie, The Idea of You.
“There are so many other things I identify as milestones. I don't normally talk about it, but I am over five years sober. That feels like a milestone to me. [Turning] Forty feels like a gift.”
Anne was on The Ellen DeGeneres show in 2019 when she told the world she was quitting alcohol.
“I’m gonna stop drinking while my son’s living in my house,” she said, referring to her son, Jonathan (now 8).
A turning point for her, she said, was her last hangover, which lasted five days.
“I did a school run one day and I dropped him off at school, I wasn't driving, but I was hungover and that was enough for me,” she told Ellen.
“I don’t totally love the way I [drink] and he’s getting to an age where he really does need me all the time in the mornings.”
Anne and husband Adam Shulman had a second son, Jack, in 2019.
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Sobriety has been rewarding, Anne said.
“My personal experience with it is that everything is better.”
Here are other A-listers who've also quit boozing.
TOM HOLLAND (27)
The Spider-Man star first revealed that he was one year sober in a May 2023 interview with Entertainment Weekly, and later that year, on Jay Shetty's On Purpose podcast he said he'd realised he couldn't go a day without a drink.
“I was definitely addicted to alcohol, I'm not shying away from that at all,” he said, adding that he was using alcohol to feel more comfortable in social settings.
He challenged himself to an alcohol-free January in 2022, and the following month he decided to go alcohol-free until his birthday, in June.
“I was the happiest I've ever been in my life,” he recalled.
“I could sleep better. I could handle problems better.”
LEWIS HAMILTON (39)
The seven-time world Formula 1 champion revealed last year that he's quit drinking.
“Since I’ve stopped drinking, I’ve just been feeling so much better, so much more clarity,” he told Vogue.
“I sleep better, I wake up in the morning and I can still get up at 5am.”
He said he'd been drinking since he was 16, when he was working as a bartender in his teen years, and he's had hangovers which would last for days.
“I’d suffer for several days – sometimes it’ll be like three or four days.”
“I don't know if I’m going to drink again.”
CHRISSY TEIGEN (38)
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The TV personality, cookbook author and model marked her first year of sobriety in 2022.
“I miss feeling loopy and carefree sometimes, but to be honest toward the end, it didn’t give that fun feeling anymore anyhow,” she wrote in an Instagram post.
She said she used alcohol to reduce anxiety but being constantly intoxicated meant her life had become a blur.
"While I honestly STILL don’t know if I’ll never have a drink again, I do know I never want to be that way again."
SOURCES: USATODAY.COM, PEOPLE.COM, ETONLINE.COM, DAILYMAIL.CO.UK
