HUGE @recoveryinc shoutout to Jason Bateman and his sobriety!!!
Hollywood Jason Bateman has reached an all-time high in his acting career, but his long-running battle with addiction almost destroyed his marriage and wrecked his life.⠀
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"It was like Risky Business for 10 years," he says of the nineties. "My parents were out of town, they left me a bunch of money, the car, and the house, and I didn't know when they were coming home. I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well."⠀
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He went on to wed actress Amanda Anka, whom he'd known since he was 18. But his partying didn't stop.⠀
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After coming home late one night, his wife finally gave him an ultimatum: Quit partying.⠀
But he didn't entirely stop. Things got so bad that she even took a planned holiday in Mexico without him. It was then, alone on a rainy Christmas morning, that he decided to seek help with Alcoholics Anonymous.⠀
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"Booze was what would make me want to stay out all night and do some blow or smoke a joint or whatever, so shutting that off was key," he told Details. "It's like ketchup and French fries—I don't want one without the other. So that's the moment: Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?"⠀
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Bateman largely credits his wife for inspiring his transition to sobriety and turning him "into a decent human being," and Anka gives her husband credit for making that change. "I can't get him off the couch to go to a party," she told GQ. "This is a guy who wants to go get frozen yogurt and come home."
