Actor Denzel Washington reveals past drinking problem
The Guardian|November 23, 2024
Denzel Washington has opened up about a long period of alcohol reliance that began in the late 1990s.
Catherine Shoard
Actor Denzel Washington reveals past drinking problem

Writing in Esquire magazine, the actor says he built a 10,000-bottle wine cellar in his house in 1999, and tried to mask his habit with high-end choices.

"Wine was my thing, and I was popping $4,000 bottles just because that's what was left," he writes. "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.' 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, and I would drink them both over the course of the day.

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