Paula Patton is sharing her seven-year sobriety journey. In a recent interview with Atlanta radio show Big Tigger Morning Show w/ Jazzy Mcbee, the actress explained how much it has changed her life. She also talked about her decision to give up alcohol was directly tied to motherhood — and to a choice she’d made regarding her career.
“When you get sober–It’s so funny, I just had this epiphany that I had made a choice. Like, it was family, it was my life or chaos, to be honest with you,” Patton said.
“I was about to go do a movie in London, and I was like, ‘I can’t do this anymore,” she recalled. “I’m like, ‘I want to be here to pack my son’s lunch and go on field trips.’”
Patton decided not to do the movie just two days before the U.K. trip. Having enjoyed a career where she’s shared the screen with everyone from Queen Latifah to Denzel Washington, she acknowledged that she “burned bridges” from the experience.
“I said, ‘If I do this — I’m going to stop drinking,'” she continued. “And so, once that happened, you go down a path, and all of the masks that you wear, like all the things that fill your ego, they drop away.”
The actress said that she lost “friends” since slowing things down and spent “a lot of time alone.”
Over the course of her career, Patton has starred in a variety of hit movies; blockbuster action films like 2 Gunz, and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, as well as romantic comedies Hitch, Just Wright and others. She shared that the fallout from her career changes affected her.
“But then on the other side was this joy for being a mother,” Patton said. “I just had this childlike experience where I started to see everything through my kid’s eye.”
You can watch the full Paula Patton interview below.
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