Parenthood's Jason Ritter opened up about how his wife, Yellowjackets star Melanie Lynskey, has been 'so thoughtful' and 'really lovely' throughout his nearly 10-year sobriety journey.
"Nothing seemed to reach or satisfy me. I remember waking up one morning in those dark days thinking, ‘Maybe it's time for heroin, because nothing else is working.'"actor famously battled a cocaine addiction throughout the '80s that brought him to rehab in 1990. As he later explained on, he grew up in the '60s and '70s when "there was a completely different attitude" towards the drug.
"It was even in some movie budgets. I was basically doing cocaine pretty much on a daily basis during the '80s," he admitted in 2018. "I spent many, many a night screaming at God to 'Please take this away from me and I'll never do it again, cause I've only got an hour before I have to be at work.' Then at 4 o'clock in the afternoon I'd go, 'Oh it's not so bad.
"I had what I call a white light experience where I saw myself either dead or losing everything that meant anything to me," he continued. He had to sit down then-fiancéeand explain what was going on. Then, he sought help. "That was the end of the love affair with me and cocaine."After an incident in Newport Beach where the Olympic swimmer tried to kick in his own hotel room door, Lochte made thein 2018.
"Ryan knows that conquering this disease now is a must for him to avoid making future poor decisions, to be the best husband and father he can be, and if he wants to achieve his goal to return to dominance in the pool in his 5th Olympics in Tokyo in 2020," the statement concluded.actor opened up about his struggles with alcoholism in 2018, sharing that it all started when self-medicated his depression by drinking.
alum knows that "one of the things that you're not supposed to do is get sober for somebody else," his relationship with now-wife"At a point, I knew how amazing she was and I thought she would be incredible for someone who deserved her," he
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