Anne Hathaway has some very personal and very powerful news to share.
In a recent interview with The New York Times to promote her upcoming film “The Idea of You,” Hathaway said the following:
“There are so many other things that I call milestones.
“I don’t normally talk about it, but I’ve been sober for over five years. This feels like a milestone for me. 40 feels like a gift.”
Hathaway revealed a few weeks ago that she also suffered a miscarriage in 2015.
In this case, the star has pointed out that she has consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at times in the past.
For example, in a conversation with Vanity Fair in March, Hathaway said she knew it “deep down.” [drinking] “It wasn’t for me,” he added at the time:
“And it just felt so extreme to have to say, ‘But none?’ But no. If you are allergic to something or have an anaphylactic reaction to something, don’t argue with it.
“So I stopped arguing about it.”
In “The Idea of You,” releasing May 2 on Amazon Prime Video, Hathaway portrays a woman named Solène.
She is a 40-year-old single mother who begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, the lead singer of August Moon, the world’s most popular boy band.
The Oscar winner told Vanity Fair that she is proud of her decision to remain sober.
“My personal experience with this is that everything is better,” Hathaway continued. “For me it was a lack of fuel. And I don’t like to indulge.”
During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2019, Hathaway first revealed to the public that she was abstaining from alcohol.
“I quit drinking for 18 years in October,” Hathaway, who shares children Jonathan, 8, and Jack, 4, with husband Adam Shulman, told the host at the time.
“I will stop drinking as long as my sons live in my house.
“I don’t completely love the way I am [drink] and he’s getting to an age where he really needs me all the time in the morning.”
In the same interview, Hathaway recalled a day when she took her son to school.
While she wasn’t driving, Hathaway said, “I had a hangover and that was enough for me. That did not please me.”
We applaud Anne Hathaway for this decision – and wish her all the best for the future!
“It’s a journey that everyone has to take for themselves,” she concluded to Vanity Fair.
“I trust that everyone else will have a drink or two, and if everyone has two drinks, you’ll feel like you’ve had two drinks – but without the hangover.”