Bradley Cooper reveals drug addiction almost killed him: ‘I was lucky’

Bradley Cooper revealed he as soon as felt his battle with drug and alcohol use would price him his life.

“The Hangover” star, 48, had an open and trustworthy dialog concerning the lowest factors in his life in a current episode of the hit Nationwide Geographic sequence “Running Wild With Bear Grylls: The Challenge.”

“You positively had some wild years?” famed survivalist Grylls, 49, requested the actor within the rugged canyons of the Wyoming Basin.

“By way of alcohol and medicines, yeah, however nothing to do with fame,” Cooper mentioned. “However I used to be fortunate. I bought sober at 29 years outdated, and I’ve been sober for 19 years. Very fortunate.”

Cooper has spoken about his alcohol and cocaine habit up to now, explaining that he sought consolation in substances after he severed his Achilles tendon and “bought fired/give up” the action-thriller sequence “Alias” in 2003.

The troubled star credit his then-roommate and fellow actor Will Arnett for sitting him down in 2004 and having a stern discuss with him that began Cooper down on a path to restoration.

But Cooper admitted to Grylls that he nearly fell off the wagon once more in January 2011 after his father died in his arms of lung most cancers.

“I positively had a nihilistic perspective in direction of life after, similar to I assumed ‘I’m going to die,’” Cooper recalled.

“I don’t know, it wasn’t nice for slightly bit till I assumed I’ve to embrace who I really am and attempt to discover a peace with that, after which it form of evened out.”

Fortunately, the actor weathered the storm and went on to channel his experiences into directing and showing reverse Girl Gaga in “A Star Is Born,” wherein he performed addict Jackson Maine.

“It made it simpler to have the ability to actually enter in there,” Cooper instructed Grylls about his Oscar-nominated efficiency within the 2018 movie. “And thank goodness I used to be at a spot in my life the place I used to be comfy with all of that so I might actually let myself go.

“I’ve been very fortunate with the roles I’ve needed to play. It’s been an actual blessing. I hope I get to maintain doing it,” he added.

Subsequent up for Cooper is the already controversial Netflix movie “Maestro” — a Leonard Bernstein biopic that options Cooper carrying a big prosthetic nostril.

Social media customers made the actor the middle of a “Jewface” debate, whereas Bernstein’s three kids defended him, including that their composer/conductor father, who died in 1990, “would have been high-quality with it as nicely.”