Anne Hathaway is proud of herself for reaching five years of sobriety.
“I don’t normally talk about it, but I am over five years sober,” the “Devil Wears Prada” star told the New York Times in an interview published Saturday. “That feels like a milestone to me.”
Hathaway, 41, admitted drinking “probably” was a way of dealing with not feeling comfortable in her own body.
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“It feels a little too exposed to discuss the alienation I felt from my body, but there was a lot of somatic stress there,” she said.
“I was very in my head about a lot of things.”
The actress revealed her sobriety anniversary while reflecting on how her life has felt since turning 40.
“I don’t take it that seriously,” she said of her age.
“There are so many other things I identify as milestones.”
Hathaway added that “40 feels like a gift.”
“The fact of the matter is I hesitate at calling things ‘middle age’ simply because I can be a semantic stickler and I could get hit by a car later today,” she said. “We don’t know if this is middle age. We don’t know anything.”
The “Princess Diaries” star previously discussed her decision to cut alcohol out of her life during an interview with Vanity Fair.
“I knew deep down it wasn’t for me,” she told the magazine last month. “And it just felt so extreme to have to say, ‘But none?’ But none.”
She continued, “If you’re allergic to something or have an anaphylactic reaction to something, you don’t argue with it. So I stopped arguing with it.”
Hathaway shared that she has discovered “everything is better” now that she is sober.
“For me, it was wallowing fuel,” she said of drinking. “And I don’t like to wallow.”
The “Les Misérables” star committed to embarking on her sober journey after becoming a mom to her two sons, Jonathan, 8, and Jack, 4, whom she shares with her husband, Adam Shulman.
Hathaway knew it was time to stop drinking when she grappled with a bad hangover while taking her eldest son to school one morning.
“I wasn’t driving, but I was hungover,” she explained on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2019. “That was enough for me. I didn’t love that one.”
