Bradley Cooper: Why I Stopped Doing Drugs & Alcohol!

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Bradley Cooper, insecure? Yes he tells The Hollywood Reporter. Cooper was involved with drugs and alcohol until he was 29 when he quit and choose sobriety. “I don’t drink or do drugs at all anymore. Being sober helps a great deal.” He recalls a time when he drunkily bashed his head on a concrete floor…just for fun and ended up in the hospital with stitches. “I was at a party and deliberately bashed my head on the concrete floor — like, ‘Hey, look how tough I am!’ And I came up, and blood dripped down. And then I did it again. I spent the night at St. Vincent’s Hospital with a sock of ice, waiting for them to stitch me up.”

“I was so concerned what you thought of me, how I was coming across, how I would survive the day. I always felt like an outsider. I just lived in my head. I realized I wasn’t going to live up to my potential, and that scared the hell out of me. I thought, ‘Wow, I’m actually gonna ruin my life; I’m really gonna ruin it.’ ”

Friends repeatedly cautioned him, yet he didn’t listen. “Part of me believed it, and part of me didn’t. But the proof was in the pudding: I’d always gotten up at the crack of dawn, and that was out the window. I remember looking at my life, my apartment, my dogs, and I thought, ‘What’s happening?’ “

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