Don’t surrender: Anthony Hopkins celebrates 45 years of sobriety

By PTI
LONDON: Veteran movie and stage actor Anthony Hopkins on Wednesday marked 45 years of sobriety and shared a message of hope particularly aimed in the direction of the youthful viewers members with alcohol and/or substance abuse.

The Oscar winner took to Twitter to share a one-minute video, by which he urged folks to “hang in there” amid the raging coronavirus pandemic that scarred the 12 months that was.

“It’s been a tricky 12 months, stuffed with grief and unhappiness for a lot of, many individuals. Forty-five years in the past at this time, I had a wake-up name. I used to be heading for catastrophe consuming myself to dying.

With gratitude, I rejoice 45 years of sobriety. pic.twitter.com/fxzMRGlI4m
— Anthony Hopkins (@AnthonyHopkins) December 29, 2020

I bought just a little message that stated: ‘Do you need to reside or die?’ and I needed to reside,” Hopkins stated.

The actor, who has drawn Oscar buzz for his titular function within the display screen adaptation of Florian Zeller’s “The Father”, stated for the reason that reduction got here life has been “amazing”, peppered with some off days and bits of doubt.

“All in all, I say grasp in there. Today is the tomorrow you had been so fearful about yesterday. You, younger folks, do not surrender, simply maintain in there.

Just maintain combating, be daring and mighty forces will come to your assist,” he stated.

Hopkins, who turns 83 on Thursday, ended the video wishing everybody a Happy New Year and hoped 2021 can be higher.