Oscar-award-winning actor Denzel Washington recently opened up about his past struggles with alcohol, which he has since left a decade ago. Washington, who recently starred in the sequel film Gladiator ll, explained what his alcoholism entails, including drinking two bottles of wine a day, Relevant reported.
“Wine was my thing,” Washington wrote in a new Esquire piece, “and now I was popping $4,000 bottles just because that’s what was left. And then later in those years, I’d call Gil Turner’s Fine Wines & Spirits on Sunset Boulevard and say, ‘Send me two bottles, the best of this or that.’ And my wife’s saying, ‘Why do you keep ordering just two?’ I said, ‘Because if I order more, I’ll drink more.’ So I kept it to two bottles, and I would drink them both over the course of the day.
He added that he built a wine cellar that could contain about 10,000 bottles in his house in 1999 and would spend a significant amount of money as a way to disguise his addiction.
“I had this ideal idea of wine tastings and all that, which is what it was at first,” the actor explained. “And that’s a very subtle thing. I mean, I drank the…
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